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girlnovels's review against another edition
3.0
3.5ish stars . complex reading but there is some good content in there about the communist party, the left, and how this new era of the internet and communications is hella exploitative
promisedlands's review against another edition
kinda wish i read this before i submitted my thesis, but anyway, incredible! you should read it too!
keggerslovakia's review against another edition
2.0
It was certainly a well researched and authored book, but I just found it to be lacking. It was very difficult to read in places, but that may be because people would have to read a lot of the referenced bools
heavenlyspit's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
fuhhlarzablur's review against another edition
4.0
Dean always (3/3 so far) feels like a slog, up until the last few pages, where everything comes together with an admirable clarity, buoyed onwards with positive determination. This book is a diverse and well-structured overview of, and argument for, the communist possibility in western-left theory and event post-USSR. Dean's constant wariness of the scope of communicative capitalism and neoliberal ideology is key to her analyses, just as her healthy scepticism for fanaticism tempers and titrates her otherwise enthusiastic engagement with militant faith as vital to an effective left movement.
lexi4prez's review against another edition
3.0
3.5ish stars . complex reading but there is some good content in there about the communist party, the left, and how this new era of the internet and communications is hella exploitative
heather_mcintosh's review
3.0
Some parts of this were really interesting, but it’s a very academic book, so not the easiest read and definitely not for everyone. The third chapter on Sovereignty of the People went completely over my head. From chapter 4 it was easier to digest, perhaps because I’d gotten more used to the writing style.
Particularly liked the following 2 quotes/ideas: “Collective power isn’t just coming together. It’s sticking together.”
“To wait, to postpone until we are sure, until we know, is to fail now.”
Particularly liked the following 2 quotes/ideas: “Collective power isn’t just coming together. It’s sticking together.”
“To wait, to postpone until we are sure, until we know, is to fail now.”
boithorn's review
5.0
I'm genuinely shocked that this isn't a widely read book on the left. A clear-eyed and sober investigation of what 'communism' is made up of, and how we can construct it in the 21st century.
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