[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 3 Communism Actually

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*Minor Compositions Podcast Season 2 Episode 3 Communism Actually*



In this episode of the Minor Compositions, we discuss Communist 
Ontologies <https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1320> with its authors 
Richard Gilman-Opalsky and Bruno Gulli, exploring their proposal that 
communism be understood not only as a political program but as a form of 
life. The conversation ranges across questions of political economy, 
ontology, and revolutionary subjectivity, considering how Marx’s 
critique of capitalism points toward the recovery of ways of living 
beyond the reduction of life to labor. Along the way we discuss the 
historical contingency of revolutionary subjects, drawing on figures 
such as Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon, as well as movements like the 
Zapatista Army of National Liberation, to think through how identities 
and forms of struggle emerge, transform, and sometimes dissolve. The 
discussion also reflects on the philosophical tension between being and 
becoming, the limits imposed by carceral systems, and the possibilities 
opened by imagining new forms of collective life – finding, in the 
spirit of W. E. B. Du Bois – that the struggle for freedom often begins 
in small practices of interdependence, imagination, and other ways of 
doing beyond the logics of capital.

*Bio:* Richard Gilman-Opalsky is professor of political theory and 
philosophy in the School of Politics and International Affairs at the 
University of Illinois. He is the author of eight books, including 
/Imaginary Power, Real Horizons/, /The Communism of Love/, /Specters of 
Revolt/, and /Precarious Communism/. His work has been translated and 
published in Greek, Spanish, French, and German.

Bruno Gullì teaches philosophy at Cuny-Kingsborough. He is the author of 
various articles and four books in the field of political ontology, 
including /Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and 
Culture/ (2005) and /Singularities at the Threshold: The Ontology of 
Unrest/ (2020).

Intro / outdo music: Wukir Suryadi, playing the Minotaur of Titir

Image: Judgment of Midas, Unknown Flemish artist, imitator of Hendrik 
van Balen, late 16th century, via Hermitage Museum; King Midas, Andrea 
Vaccaro, 1670, via Dorotheum

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