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

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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 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, and wield it for its own purposes,” he identified a
principle that will remain true as long as capitalism and its
class antagonism persist. Historical revolutions reveal essential
features of our communist horizon, 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 an inverted
description of communism, Jasper Bernes synthesizes from a
history of failure the key criteria for success. He defines for
our present moment the urgent mission of the world proletariat.


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