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Comrade : an essay on political belonging / Jodi Dean

Author
Dean, Jodi, 1962-
Published
London ; New York : Verso, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
156 pages ; 22 cm

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Contents
From allies to comrades -- The generic comrade -- Four theses on the comrade -- You are not my comrade.
Summary
"In the twentieth-century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as 'comrade'. Now, it's more common to hear talk of "allies" on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relation of political belonging that must be built, sustained, and defended. In Comrade, Dean offers a theory of the comrade. Comrades are equals on the same side of a political struggle. Voluntarily coming together in the struggle for justice, their relationship is characterised by discipline, joy, courage, and enthusiasm. Considering the generic egalitarianism of the comrade in light of differences of race and gender, Dean draws from an array of historical and literary examples such as Harry Haywood, C.L.R James, Alexandra Kollontai, and Doris Lessing. She argues that if we are to be a left at all, we have to be comrades"--
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ISBN
9781788735018 hardcover
1788735013 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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