If you want a conclusion to Lenin's question ‘What is to be done?’, you may be disappointed by Althusser’s book. Written in 1978 but ultimately unfinished, the book focusses on the emergent Eurocommunism and their focus on civil society rather than the state but Althusser's critique remains largely moralistic.

What is to be done?
Louis Althusser, trans. by G. M. Goshgarian
Polity, 2020
9781509538614

What is necessary for Fisher and for Colquhoun is the creation of counterculture to ‘smuggle’ radical ideas into popular culture. But when Fisher refers to two television adverts as hyperstitious moments that produce desire, to even attempt to incorporate this desire into class consciousness is to move in terms not just set by capitalism but the culture industry itself.

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
Mark Fisher, ed. by Matt Colquhoun
Repeater, 2021
9781913462482

With its immediate recourse to non-violence, the most notable thing about Judith Butler’s The Force of Non-Violence is not its case for a particular philosophy either as an ethical or tactical choice but in revealing the impotence of liberalism to deal with contemporary politics.

The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political
Judith Butler
Verso, 2020
9781788732765

Recognising LGBT struggles is incredibly simple; it doesn’t require conceding ground to anyone – to the middle class, to reactionary politics, to postmodernism – and with Marxism and Transgender Liberation, Red Fightback recognises this. But it could go further.

Marxism and Transgender Liberation: Confronting Transphobia in the British Left
Red Fightback, 2020
9780244869779