The Reification of DesireThe Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed togetherformative arguments for Marxism and those that have been the basis for queer theoryand productively scrutinizes these ideas both with and against each other to put forth a new theoretical connection between Marxism and queer studies. Kevin Floyd brings queer critique to bear on the Marxian categories of reification and totality and considers the dialectic that frames the