A review by fuhhlarzablur
The Communist Horizon by Jodi Dean

4.0

Dean always (3/3 so far) feels like a slog, up until the last few pages, where everything comes together with an admirable clarity, buoyed onwards with positive determination. This book is a diverse and well-structured overview of, and argument for, the communist possibility in western-left theory and event post-USSR. Dean's constant wariness of the scope of communicative capitalism and neoliberal ideology is key to her analyses, just as her healthy scepticism for fanaticism tempers and titrates her otherwise enthusiastic engagement with militant faith as vital to an effective left movement.