Abstract
This essay responds to the exchange between Jodi Dean and Stephen Healy that took place at the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference. The concept of communism without guarantees, following Stuart Hall, acknowledges the exceptional difficulty of forming potentially emancipatory social formations in our current historical moment. This situation suggests that, when it comes to how we engage with paradox and uncertainty, we need to cultivate ways of being that are different from those to which we have been culturally conditioned. We need to maintain healthy skepticism while also daring to imagine. We also need to take seriously ecologies of emergence and the power of intersubjective communication as a reciprocal process of telling and listening. Key to these transformations will be the cultivation of friendship as a revolutionary mode of being and the thoughtful emulation of others who have tried before us.
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