A review by levi_masuli
The Communist Postscript by Boris Groys

1.0

Disappointing. Has a few interesting points, especially the ones regarding totalitarianism, art, and others. But the most frustrating aspect is Groy's subordination of actual historical conditions to the concerns of language, working under the assumption of the 'linguistification of society,' the idea of communist authority as based on linguistic mastery, capability for paradox, and so on. Also has a lot of ridiculous assertions such as the Soviet Union reaching the point where class ceases to exist (perhaps following one of Stalin's more flawed assertions, that the classes are diminishing in Soviet Russia), and that philosophy and language has succeeded the concrete analysis of socio-economic conditions as matters of social and political relevance. This book is dangerous, because it promotes a lot of reactionary ideas under the guise of being 'hip' and revolutionary (heck, even Nazism is being revived as a fashionable today) because of its trendy glorification of Stalinist Russia and totalitarianism.