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Book SynopsisEscaping the formalist straitjacket of typical Marxist critique.
Trade Review'Andy Merrifield is original, erudite, politically alive and readable. And above all, this book will be (in strictly the first sense of the term) thought-provoking!'
-- John Berger, novelist and critic
'Brings us a Marxism that is 'warmer' than most recent forms, Marxism as it might have been imagined by DH Lawrence or one of the great Latin American novelists. Helps us see how Marxism can make us more authentic human beings'
-- Marshall Berman, author of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: The Circulation of Revolt: Real and Fictitious Marxism
1. Living an Illusion: Beyond the Reality of Realism
2. Subscribing to the Imaginary Party: Notes on a Politics of Neo-Communism
3. Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feeling: Activism and Immateriality
4. Militant Optimism and the Anti-Capitalist Transition
5. Macondo of the Mind: Imagination Seizes Power
6. Butterflies, Owls, and Little Gold Fishes: Conjuring up Revolutionary Magic
Notes
Index
