Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future

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Bini Adamczak Adrain Nathan West

Yesterday's Tomorrow

On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future

Bini Adamczak, Adrain Nathan West, Raymond Geuss

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MIT Press
18 May 2021

Marxism & Communism

How the communist revolution failed, presented in a series of catastrophes.

How the communist revolution failed, presented in a series of catastrophes.

The communist project in the twentieth century grew out of utopian desires to oppose oppression and abolish class structures, to give individual lives collective meaning. The attempts to realize these ideals became a series of colossal failures. In Yesterday's Tomorrow, Bini Adamczak examines these catastrophes, proceeding in reverse chronological order from 1939 to 1917- the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Great Terror of 1937, the failure of the European Left to prevent National Socialism, Stalin's rise to power, and the bloody rebellion at Kronstadt. In the process, she seeks a future that never happened.

By: Bini Adamczak, Adrain Nathan West
Foreword by: Raymond Geuss
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 137mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262045131
ISBN 10: 0262045133
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 18 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Raymond Geuss 1 End 2 Farewell 3 Party 4 Class 5 Promise 6 Revolution PS Notes References

Bini Adamczak is a Berlin-based social theorist and artist who writes on political theory, queer politics, and the past future of revolutions. She is the author of Communism for Kids (MIT Press).

Reviews for Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future

In her stupendous Yesterday's Tomorrow, Bini Adamczak provides nothing less than the definitive account of what one cannot but call the ineradicable, absolutely authentic, Communist desire, the Idea of a society which fully overcomes domination...After reading this book and trying to select quotes from it, I was overwhelmed by a weird feeling that the entire book should be quoted. -Slavoj Zizek, The Philosophical Salon