The Future of Revolution
Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising
by Jasper Bernes

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Author(s)

Jasper Bernes

Publication, year

London ; New York : Verso, 2025

Scope

186 Pages, 21,5 cm.

ISBN

978-1788737531

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When Marx wrote that the Paris Commune of 1871 showed that “the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes,” he identified a principle that will remain true as long as capitalism and its class antagonism persist. In chapters that move from a critical history of the workers’ council to a reading of Marx’s theory of value as an inverted description of communism, Jasper Bernes synthesizes from a history of failure the key criteria for success (of communism). He defines for our present moment the urgent mission of the world proletariat.

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Keywords

(on)gelijkheid / (in)equity , activisme / activism , communism

Location

Cabinet 11C - 1: Filosofie ; Sociologie ; Maatschappij ; Politiek / Philosophy ; Sociology ; Society ; Politics

Extra themes

Tegencultuur / Counter culture

Contains

notes , index