Abstract

This essay articulates a disagreement with Jodi Dean's assessments of postcapitalist politics as initially formulated in her book, The Communist Horizon (Verso, 2012), and more recently in her conversation with Stephen Healy on “Crafting Communism” at the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference. Contrary to Dean's alignment of postcapitalist politics with a depoliticized individuation, this commentary argues that postcapitalist politics is necessary for constructing the called-forth party as an organization that expands class struggle over economy, produces economic solidarity, and reactivates desire for communal economies while also addressing the irreducibility of class antagonism. This disagreement with Dean is largely shaped by the different respective ontological stances we assume toward the constitution of economy.

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