Synopsis:
The Commune: Paris, 1871, is a new collection of critical reflections on the Paris Commune by classic anarchist and libertarian-socialist authors like Louise Michel, William Morris, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin,Voltairine de Cleyre, Alexander Berkman and Maurice Brinton. These writings seek the illuminate the place of the Commune within the global history of working people's resistance to exploitation and domination, and investigate its implications for the future of revolutionary struggle.
Compiled and edited with a foreword by Andrew Zonneveld.
About the Author:
Though never as imfamous as Emma Goldman, Voltairine de Cleyre distiguished herself as a leading intellectual, activist, speaker and writer. Though she died young in 1912 at age 46 she had already made a tremendous impact in anarchist, feminist and labor movements in America.
Alexander Berkman was a leading writer and participant in the 20th century Anarchist movement. The young, idealistic Berkman practiced "propaganda by deed" attempting to assassinate Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892. While imprisoned, he wrote the classic tale of prison life Prison Memoirs of and Anarchist. After his release, Berkman edited Emma Goldman's Mother Earth and his own paper The Blast!. Deported from New York City to his native Russia in 1919, were he saw first hand the failure of the Bolshevik revolution and dedicated himself to writing the classic primer on Anarchism, What is Anarchism?.
Maurice Brinton is the author of Bolsheviks & Workers' Control, Irrational in Politics and countless essays that have been printed widely from 1960 to the present.
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