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Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging

Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging

Dean, Jodi

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General Political ScienceSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $19.95

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ISBN10: 1788735021
ISBN13: 9781788735025
Publisher: Verso
Published: Nov 10 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.81
Language: English
When people say comrade, they change the world

In the twentieth century, millions of people across the globe addressed each other as comrade. Now, among the left, it's more common to hear talk of allies. In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem with the contemporary left: the substitution of political identity for a relationship of political belonging that must be built, sustained, and defended.

Dean offers a theory of the comrade. Comrades are equals on the same side of a political struggle. Voluntarily coming together in the struggle for justice, their relationship is characterized by discipline, joy, courage, and enthusiasm. Considering the egalitarianism of the comrade in light of differences of race and gender, Dean draws from an array of historical and literary examples such as Harry Haywood, C.L.R. James, Alexandra Kollontai, and Doris Lessing. She argues that if we are to be a left at all, we have to be comrades.

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