The Future of Revolution: Jasper Bernes on Communism from the Paris Commune to George Floyd
Acid Horizon4 Mai 2025

The Future of Revolution: Jasper Bernes on Communism from the Paris Commune to George Floyd

Buy the Book: https://www.versobooks.com/products/977-the-future-of-revolution?srsltid=AfmBOopbQABhI9H6efsVC8cJLfIxh2LNXMqxpppbp8xUVVnxNMtAyEPc How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed? Communism 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 overcomin...

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