The Future of Revolution
Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising
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2025
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-78873-753-1 (ISBN)
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How might a 21st-century revolution against class society succeed? From the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising, anticipations of a future communism.
Communism comes from the future, but its hope haunts our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory from Marx to CLR James, The Future of Revolution illuminates the possibilities for an overcoming of class society in the 21st century. When Marx wrote that the Paris Commune of 1871 showed that the "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 persists. Historical revolutions therefore reveal essential features of our communist horizons which would-be revolutionaries then as now must negotiate one way or another. In chapters that move from a critical history of the workers' council to a reading of Marx's theory of value as inverted description of communism, Jasper Bernes synthesizes from a history of failure key criteria for success and clarifies for our present moment the still-urgent mission of the world proletariat.
Communism comes from the future, but its hope haunts our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory from Marx to CLR James, The Future of Revolution illuminates the possibilities for an overcoming of class society in the 21st century. When Marx wrote that the Paris Commune of 1871 showed that the "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 persists. Historical revolutions therefore reveal essential features of our communist horizons which would-be revolutionaries then as now must negotiate one way or another. In chapters that move from a critical history of the workers' council to a reading of Marx's theory of value as inverted description of communism, Jasper Bernes synthesizes from a history of failure key criteria for success and clarifies for our present moment the still-urgent mission of the world proletariat.
Jasper Bernes is the author of The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford, 2017) and two books of poetry: We Are Nothing and So Can You, and Starsdown. Essays, poems and other writings can be found in Critical Inquiry, Modern Language Quarterly, Radical Philosophy, Endnotes, Lana Turner, The American Reader, and elsewhere. Together with Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover, he edits Commune Editions.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.4.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 250 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78873-753-9 / 1788737539 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78873-753-1 / 9781788737531 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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