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Review of Keti Chukhrov – ‘Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism’

Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on August 5, 2021 by Isabel Jacobs (more by Marx & Philosophy) | (Posted Aug 07, 2021)

As the title reveals, Chukhrov is particularly interested in two aspects of Soviet socialism: desire and boredom. For a libidinally conditioned capitalist subject, socialism as a non-libidinal economy appears boring and unsexy.