The Actuality of Communism keyword strike action she takes the reader on she takes the reader on a fascinating journey into the heart of one of the world’s most intractable conflict zones and one of the major issues of our time This truly was an insurgency from below in which all those who strove to moderate and deflect the turbulent flood of popular outrage managed only to humiliate themselves Bosteels examines this resurgence of Communist thought through the prism of “speculative leftism” – an incapacity to move beyond lofty abstractions and thoroughly rethink the categories of masses Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Žižek