Habjan discusses lesson from philosopher Jacques Ranciere. A thinker whose interventions dedicated to the specific twentieth-century link between art and politics have only intensified since 2005, Ranciere is also a contributor to the famous Leninist reading of Das Kapital that Althusser and his students published in 1965, a student activist by May 1968, and an early critic of Althusser's Leninism by 1974. In this sense, Ranciere's work on art and politics, and the way this work has been read in terms of speech and the act, seems to provide a relevant backdrop against which Marxism can be approached today, when, a hundred years after the Left seized power, and 50 years after it seized speech instead of power, the US shows the global Right how to seize, if not power, then at least power-as-speech.