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After the financial crashand the great recession, the media rediscoveredKarl Marx, socialisttheory, and the very ideathat capitalism can be questioned. But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporarycritical thought have gone unexplored outside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel s Utopia orBust leads readers whether politically committedor simply curious through the most important criticaltheory today. Written with the wit and verve ofKunkel s best-selling novel, "Indecision," this introductionto contemporary Leftist thinkers engages withthe revolutionary philosophy of Slavoj i[ek, the economicanalyses of David Graeber and David Harvey, and the cultural diagnoses of Fredric Jameson. Discussing the ongoing crisis of capitalism in light ofideas of full employment, debt forgiveness, and fictitiouscapital, Utopia or Bust is a tour through theworld of Marxist thought and an examination of thebasis of Western society today."