By means of the philosophical and politico-economical consideration of Soviet socialism of the 1960s and 1970s, this book manages to reveal the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporaneous anticapitalist discourse and theory. The research is marked by a broad cross-disciplinary approach based on political economy, philosophy, art theory, and cultural theory. 


Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism, a philosophical consideration of Soviet socialism, is not meant simply to revisit the communist past. It unravels the epistemes generated by socialist society and its political economy to witness to what extent certain zones where capitalism’s domination is resisted—the zones of anti-capitalist critique in continental thought since the 1960s, institutions of civil society, and present theoretical provisions of emancipation—are in fact permeated by an unconscious form of capitalism and thus unwittingly affirm the capitalist condition.