The author of Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies separates communist ideals from the failures of the Soviet Union while denouncing the practices of capitalism, examining the experience of the Occupy movement to argue in favor of an organized revolution that can be constituted as a party. Evoking the notion of the communist horizon as a fundamental division that conditions our political experiences and rejecting the prevalent notion among liberals and conservatives that the communist horizon disappeared with the fall of the Soviet Union, Dean (political theory, Hobart and William Smith Colleges) explores its manifestations in contemporary politics, arguing that recognition of the communist horizon impresses upon us the necessity to abolish capitalism and to create global practices and institutions of egalitarian cooperation. Hoping to expand the recognition of the communist horizon, she addresses six themes: the image of the Soviet Union and its collapse, present day representations of communism as a threat, sovereignty of the people, the commons, communist desire, and the necessity of the party. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Rising thinker on the resurgence of the communist idea.
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