Jodi Dean separates the communist ideal from the failings of the Soviet Union, thereby challenging the lingering prejudices of the Cold War. Today, at a time when the activity of international banking has awakened and highlighted the plight of exploited populations worldwide, revealing the inadequacy of an economic system committed to perpetual growth, it is high time for the left to end its melancholic arrangement with capitalism. In the new capitalism of interconnected information technologies, even our ability to communicate is exploited and commodified. However, a revolution is still possible if we organize based on our shared and collective desires. In her analysis of the Occupy movement, Dean argues that its spontaneity does not evolve into a revolution.