If you want an unsubstantiated critique of any more or less left wing political project that does not at all come to the grips with why they happen, how and why they fail this is the book for you. Instead of analysis of how state power develops and how it relates to capital you get a theory of how the aesthetic of high modernism, think straight lines, cause all sorts of trouble. While many of the projects he discusses indeed were tragedies attributing them to aesthetics seem extraordinary reductive and idiotic. The rise of capitalism and capital adjacent regimes (really existing socialism, developmental states) is more or less completely forgotten. The high points are either when he touches on the realities of politico economic constraints and when he seemingly unwittingly acknowledges the deep conservatism of the unacknowledged political project he sketches between the lines.