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Tag Archives: Paris Commune
The Paris Commune: Peter Kropotkin
The revolution of 1871 was above all a popular one. It was made by the people themselves, it sprang spontaneously from the midst of the mass, and it was among the great masses of the people that it found its … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Karl Marx
The work of Karl Marx on the Paris Commune of 1871 remains central for the understanding of the Commune as a “revolution”. We share below a text known as The Third Address of May 30th, 1871, part of a collection … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Mikhail Bakunin
I am a supporter of the Paris Commune, which for all the bloodletting it suffered at the hands of monarchical and clerical reaction, has nonetheless grown more enduring and more powerful in the hearts and minds of Europe’s proletariat. I … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Louise Michel
Anarchy is not a new idea; writers long before Saint-Just believed that a person who makes himself a leader commits a crime. Louise Michel It is not possible to read Louise Michel’s memoires without being swept away by the passion … Continue reading
The Paris Commune
To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that’s the point. Arthur Rimbaud We share the words and sentiment of Mitchel Abidor, when he writes that the “Paris Commune of 1871 has been a blank screen … Continue reading
Remembering-living the Paris Commune
The 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune: A Call from the Gilets Jaunes of Montreuil (From paris-luttes.info 24/02/2020; lundi matin #277, 01/03/2021) The 18th of March, 2021, long live the Commune, and long live the Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests!! On November 17, … Continue reading
An apology for permanent insurrection
Anarchists, as Amedeo Bertolo so clearly expressed, act and think within the permanent tension between anarchy as ideal and as lived. The mistake is to believe that this tension can be surpassed, set aside, in a finally realised anarchy, or … Continue reading
March 18, 1871: The Birth of the Paris Commune – A Narrative
Remembering the Paris Commune (from CrimethInc.), followed by an interview with Kristen Ross, author of Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (Verso, 2015), with Roarmag‘s Jerome Roos … What idea does the Paris Commune represent? And why is this … Continue reading
The Paris Commune: Errico Malatesta
Writing of the Paris Commune in 1900, Errico Malatesta sought to disarm the myth of the Commune as a revolution – it was neither a socialist nor an anarchist revolution – and bring to the fore what in fact it … Continue reading →