Utopia and Communism

Each year a new volume of the Socialist Register appears, effectively laying out for socialists and communists what are burning issues of the day – we now have 56 years of coverage, and many of the burning issues are now in a full blaze. This year’s edition was published before the global pandemic, the currently 30 million additional unemployed in the US alone, and the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd, and with the US soon to record 200,000 coronavirus deaths, most of which could have been prevented. The whole world watched the video and responded with a movement that became more widespread than was Occupy Wall Street in 2011 or the first Black Lives Matter upsurge in 2014.

Speakers

• “Communism in the Suburbs?”: Roger Keil holds the Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban studies at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
• “The Retroactive Utopia of the Socialist City”: Owen Hatherley is the author of several books on political aesthetics, and the culture editor of Tribune, which was relaunched as a print magazine and website with the support of Jacobin in 2018.

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