“Here’s the Full Transcript of President Obama’s Speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” Time, May 1, 2016 →.
Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013).
Wendy Brown, “Wounded Attachments,” Political Theory 21, no. 3 (August 1993): 390–410. See also Robin D. G. Kelley’s critique of black student activists’ embrace of the language of personal trauma, “Black Study, Black Struggle,” Boston Review, March 7, 2016 →.
Jodi Dean, “The Anamorphic Politics of Climate Change,” e-flux journal 69 (January 2016) →.
Jodi Dean, “Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics,” Cultural Politics 1, no. 1 (2005): 51–74.
Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political (expanded edition), trans. George Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Benjamin Bratton, “Some Trace Effects of the Post-Anthropocene: On Accelerationist Geopolitical Aesthetics,” e-flux journal 46 (June 2013) →.
Jennifer M. Silva, Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
For a more thorough discussion see my Crowds and Party (London: Verso, 2016).
Jodi Dean, “Faces as Commons: The Secondary Visuality of Communicative Capitalism,” Open! December 31, 2016.
John McCumber, Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy in the McCarthy Era (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2001) 38–39.
Alexandra Kollontai, “New Woman,” from The New Morality and the Working Class (1918), trans. Salvator Attansio, Marxists Internet Archive →.
Alexandra Kollontai, Communism and the Family (1920), trans. Alix Holt, Marxists Internet Archive →.
Maxim Gorky, “Comrade” (1905), Marxists Internet Archive →.
See also Juan A. Herrero Brasas, Walt Whitman’s Mystical Ethics of Comradeship (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2010); and Kirsten Harris, Walt Whitman and British Socialism: ‘The Love of Comrades,’ (New York: Routledge, 2016).
Amy Wellington, “The Slave of a Slave,” The Comrade 1, no. 6 (1901): 128.
George D. Herron, “A Song of To-Morrow,” The Comrade 3, no. 4 (1903): 83.
George D. Herron, “From Gods to Men,” The Comrade 1, no. 4 (1901): 97.
Quoted in Olga Kravets, “On Things and Comrades,” ephemera 13, no. 2 (May 2013): 421–36 →.
Hongwei Bao, “‘Queer Comrades’: Transnational popular culture, queer sociality, and socialist legacy,” English Language Notes 49, no. 1 (Spring–Summer 2011): 131–37, 132.
Jason Frank, “Promiscuous Citizenship,” A Political Companion to Walt Whitman, ed. John Seery (Lexington, KT: University Press of Kentucky, 2011): 155–84, 164.
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2004) 236, 239.
I am indebted to Oxana Timofeeva for this example and for the insight that anyone but not everyone can be a comrade.
Jean-Paul Sartre, preface, The Wretched of the Earth, lvi.
Quoted by Hayden Herrera, “Frida Kahlo: Life into Art,” The Seductions of Biography, eds. David Suchoff and Mary Rhiel (New York: Routledge, 1996): 113–17, 115.
For a more complex discussion of the neighbor in its religious, sociopolitical, and mathematical meanings, see Kenneth Reinhard’s entry, “Neighbor,” in the Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon, ed. Barbara Cassin (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015): 706–12.
Claudio Lomnitz, The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón (New York: Zone Books, 2014), 295.
Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1998), 131.
Ibid., 133.
See the German Wikipedia entry for “Genosse” →.
Oxana Timofeeva, “Communist Spirits: A Pack of Folks,” commentary on the art of Nikolay Oleynikov. Unpublished essay.
Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes, 141.
Ibid.
Bertolt Brecht, The Measures Taken and Other Lehrstücke, eds. John Willett and Ralph Mannheim (New York: Arcade Publishing, 2001), 12.
Kravets, “On Things and Comrades,” 422.
Personal communication.
Serguei Sakhno and Nicole Tersis, “Is a ‘friend’ an ‘enemy’? Between ‘proximity’ and ‘opposition,’” in From Polysemy to Semantic Change, ed. Martine Vanhove (Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2008): 317–39, 334.
Vivian Gornick, The Romance of American Communism (New York: Basic Books, 1977), 56.
Harris, Walt Whitman and British Socialism, 13.
W. Harrison Riley, “Reminiscences of Karl Marx,” The Comrade 3, no. 1 (1903): 5–6, 5.
“Marx to Dr. Kugelmann Concerning the Paris Commune,” April 12, 1871, Marxists Internet Archive →.
For a discussion of the distinction between formal and historical party in Marx’s writing, see Gavin Walker, “The Body of Politics: On the Concept of the Party,” Theory & Event 16, no 4 (2013).
Marx to Kugelmann.
Karl Marx, “Instructions for the Delegates of the Provisional General Council: The Different Questions,” section 2 (1866), Marxists Internet Archive →.
Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought, trans. Oliver Feltham and Justin Clemens (London: Continuum, 2003), 62.
Peter Hallward, Badiou: A Subject to Truth (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 129.
Alain Badiou, Second Manifesto for Philosophy, trans. Louise Burchill (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011), 84.
I develop this argument in Crowds and Party.
Raphael Samuel, The Lost World of British Communism (London: Verso, 2006). The book is comprised of three essays originally published in New Left Review between 1985 and 1987.
For a fuller discussion see Crowds and Party, ch. 5.
Samuel, The Lost World of British Communism, 103.
Alain Badiou, The Rebirth of History (London: Verso, 2012), 69.
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