The Unconscious Spirit of Communism

This award-winning work makes the case for all organic working-class character of the Polish Solidarno-- revolution of 1980-81. Michä Siermi-ski debunks the canonical idea that the movement was orchestrated primarily by intellectuals from the democratic opposition, who brought consciousness to the workers "from the outside." Siermi-ski traces the origins of the Polish revolution to the self-activity and self-organization developed by the Polish working class during earlier protests, strikes, and occupations. The book convincingly demonstrates that Solidarno-- was driven by the working class's own aims, experiences and revolutionary instinct - often in direct opposition to the efforts of intellectuals to contain its radicalism.

Nadir Lahiji is the author of K-jin Karatani's Philosophy of Architecture (Routledge, 2024). His previous books include Architecture in the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou (Routledge, 2022); Architecture, Philosophy and Pedagogy of Cinema: From Benjamin to Badiou (Routledge, 2021); Architecture or Revolution: Emancipatory Critique After Marx (Routledge, 2021); An Architecture Manifesto: Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice (Routledge, 2019), and Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2018 [2016]). He is the co-author of The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City (Routledge, 2016). His edited books include Can Architecture Be an Emancipatory Project: Dialogues on Architecture and the Left (Zero Books, 2016), The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture (Bloomsbury, 2015 [2014]), Architecture Against the Post-Political: Essays in Reclaiming the Critical Project (Routledge, 2014), The Political Unconscious of Architecture: Re-opening Jameson's Narrative (Ashgate, 2012 [2011]).

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Communism and the Return of the Repressed
1 Karatani and the Liberated Marx
2 Marx and the Unconscious
3 The Science of Spirit
4 Kant, Marx, and Transcendental Critique
5 The Gift and Modes of Exchange
6 Theory of the State
7 Socialism and Associationism
8 Kant’s Perpetual Peace
9 Metaphors in Marx
10 Nation and Transcritique on Kant and Freud
11 Isonomia and Socrates
Epilogue: Marx and the Unconscious Spirit
Bibliography
Index