The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising

The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd UprisingCommunism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R. James, The Future of Revolution illuminates the possibilities for overcoming class society in the twenty first century. When Marx wrote that the Paris Commune of 1871 showed that the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready made state machinery,

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analyses of shared spaces

whose citations are read aloud by the audience — performance as re-citation

She collected all its fallen leaves in autumn

What can a reclining marble sculpture

as well as into politics and concludes with a reflection on how the effigy protests act as a symptom of fundamental conflicts at the limits of contemporary liberal democracy

VOP took part in the 6th Photobook Festival in Kassel

theatre and the visual arts

and political so succinctly as that of hair

Comrades are equals on the same side of a political struggle

interpreting what was being recited

Victoria and Albert Museum