Stalinist Realism and Open Communism
Malignant Mirror or Free Association
by Ian Parker
RRP: £6, €7.50, $8 (print)
Publication date: 1 October 2022
98 pages; 178x102mm
ABOUT THE BOOK
Capitalism as a global system of rule that tells us that there is no alternative, and this is accompanied by its terrible twin, ‘stalinist realism’ that works its way into ideas about political camps, bodies, identity and organisation. Ian Parker provides an analysis and an alternative, ‘open communism’ that is democratic and plural, and which must be built now.
CONTENTS
- Stalinism
- Camps
- Bodies
- Identity
- Organisation
- Freedom
- Commons
- Intersections
- Plurality
- Transitions
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