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Jodi Dean: Academic and Comrade

Complete your Jodi Dean bookshelf with her latest work, Capital’s Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle.

 

27 March 2025

Image credit: Katarina Marković / The EGS
Image Credit: Katarina Marković / The EGS

Jodi Dean is an essential political theorist. Her work examines how the left can build a new collective politics.

In her latest book she asks: in a society of serfs and servants, how do we get free? With the rise of neofeudalism, and as more and more workers are drawn into the service sector—from nurses to Uber and delivery drivers—Dean argues that we can see the emergence of a new vanguard, the class that can lead the struggle for liberation from oppression and exploitation: what she calls the servant vanguard.

“Dean provides the most rigorous account of what a neofeudal society entails. Every page is a provocation, every sentence is a delight.” —  Corey Robin, author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

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Further Reading

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  • Comrade
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    Comrade

    In the twentieth-century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as “comrade”. Now, it’s more common to hear talk of “allies” on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi D...
    Hardback
  • Crowds and Party
    Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political party. Rejecting the emphasis on individuals and multi...
    Paperback
  • The Communist Horizon
    Jodi Dean unshackles the communist ideal from the failures of the Soviet Union. In the new capitalism of networked information technologies, our very ability to communicate is exploited, but revolu...
    Paperback
  • Organize, Fight, Win
    Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete mater...
    Paperback
  • Occupy!
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    Occupy!

    In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, O...

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