Communism is not just a dream of a better world, it is also a
theory about how we get there
If the question of communism is making a comeback today, this renewed
interest is often accompanied by an abandonment of any concrete
political perspective.
Critical philosophies are flourishing and proliferating, but, folded
into the academic terrain, they often remain disconnected from the
global issues associated with the present crisis of capitalism,
contributing, in turn, to the fragmentation of the resistances that
are opposed to it.
Instead of locking the perspective of emancipation into the registers
of utopia, or relegating it to the side of an empty populism,
Isabelle Garo studies in this book the conditions of a contemporary
revival of the alternative as a collective construction, anchored in
real aspirations and struggles and inseparable from a rethinking of
the theoretical work.
By addressing the impasses faced by many of the most fashionable
radical theorists – Badiou, Laclau, the theorists of the commons,
and revisiting them in relation to Marx and Gramsci also allows us to
re-read the latter from the point of view of contemporary questions
of the state and the party, of work and property, of conflict and
hegemony.
Thus, to rethink strategy is above all to re-explore the question of
mediations, whether they be forms of organisation or existing
mobilisations, as sites par excellence of political invention.