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Hints at a pretty solid book idea: exploring comradeship within a shared organization (such as the Communist Party), what expectations this carries, how it differs from "allyship". intervening in the woke wars that were already sort of over by 2020, but making fine points about it I guess. Helped us to talk about discipline and what we think about the idea, but sometimes in spite of the book itself.

She also follows a bizarre urge to devote half the book to psychobabble of the lacanian/zizekian variety, which as always contributes nothing at all to the book except to give it a veneer of intellectual power and depth (in practice only harming the book for people who aren't pulled in by that stuff). Flirtations with "Stalinism" are, in a familiar trick of 2010s youtube communists, placed underneath this philosophical stuff, when I'm sure Dean's opinions about this stuff would be interesting if they were stated plainly!!