{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.01765650080256822, 'fraction_numerical': 0.006420545746388443, 'mean_word_length': 5.117647058823529, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
A Plurality of Communisms

The unending crisis in southern Europe has brought a new urgency to thinking and living in different ways. Responding to the exchange between Jodi Dean and Stephen Healy at the 2013 Rethinking Marxism International Conference, this article draws on recent examples in Spain of direct action at the local, regional, and national levels in order to question the perennial call to scale up. Is expansion inherently desirable? Is it a priority? What are the tradeoffs? Where does this urge come from? Are there visions of mass mobilization that don't replace one universalizing tendency with another?