Jodi Dean: On the Communist Horizon
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- Created on Wednesday, 22 August 2012 08:49
- Written by Jodi Dean
The following talk took place at New York City's Brecht Forum during their recent Red Power Mixtape . Jodi Dean is Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Thanks to Kazembe for his work, and for suggesting this post.
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Particularly provocative and outrageously red here--in this talk that everyone should watch--is the rewriting the communist project as one oriented around not the closing of existing gaps and lacks, but around the cultivation and organization of desire, specifically of the communist desire, the collective desire for collective desiring.
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Kasama is a communist project for the forcible overthrow and transformation of all existing social conditions. We are open to learning, unafraid to admit our own uncertainties. We will not shrink from what we do know: the solutions cannot be found within the current world order or the choices it provides. We are for revolution. We seek to find the forms of organization and action for the people most dispossessed by this system to free themselves and all humanity.
To take this road, we need a fearless, open-eyed debate, discussion and engagement. We need fresh analyses of the rapid changes shaping the world around us. We need to sum up a century of revolutionary strategies and attempts, victories and defeats – instead of the conventional wisdom and facile verdicts that paralyze our movements. We need to re-imagine a radical politics that can take life among people and move mountains.
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