The Idea of Communism
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The Idea of Communism (2010) is a book by Slavoj Zizek and Costas Douzinas.
In the introduction Žižek and Douzinas identified four common premises:
- The idea of communism confronts depoliticization through a return to voluntarism.
- Communism as a radical philosophical idea. It must be thought of as taking distance from economism and statism as well as learning from the experiences of the 21st century.
- Communism combats neoliberalism by returning to the idea of the "common".
- Communism as freedom and equality. Equality cannot exist without freedom and vice versa.
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