#pariscommune

[insurrectionaryam]

The aim of the conference is to explore some questions on the history of the Paris Commune and its enduring relevance for democratic thought

[forevertoremain]

"Just a snapshot from history. The Vendome Column in #Paris (with Napoleon on top) pulled down as a symbol of imperialism by the immortal Paris Commune in 1871. The great revolutionary artist, Gustave Courbet, was jailed and fined for his part in this after the Commune was suppressed." - original post by John Molyneux on FB #ParisCommune #revolution https://www.instagram.com/p/CBMzC11Ddr6/?igshid=1kr08oq37t9d5

[punkecodavid]

Reading a 1871 edition of Le Nationale at the Newberry Library... (lire une édition de 1871 de Le Nationale à la Newberry Library de Chicago)... #newberrylibrary #lenational #1871 #pariscommune #vintage #antique #researchingisfun #collegelife #chicago #bigcityliving (at Newberry Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9pjFxWAOWS/?igshid=13t362gac809r

[haymarketbooks]

Established March 18, 1871, the Paris Commune embraced universal suffrage, women's liberation, and economic equality. . #revolution #pariscommune #womenshistorymonth

[qaaajamaladinov-blog]

Today, on March 18, exactly 146 years since the proclamation of the Paris commune Aujourd'hui, Mars 18 exactement 146 ans depuis la proclamation de la Commune de Paris #pariscommune #communedeparis #vivelacommune #anaja_queer

[stones-ready]

This book restages the Paris Commune for our own time. Why is the Commune a resource for thinking the demands of our present?

After 2011, with the return virtually everywhere of a political strategy grounded in taking up space, seizing places and territories, turning cities — from Istanbul to Madrid, from Montreal to Oakland — into theaters for strategic operations, the Paris Commune has become newly illuminated or visible, it has entered once again into the figurability of the present.

Its forms of political invention have become newly available to us not as lessons but as resources, or as what Andrew Ross, speaking about my book, called “a useable archive.” The Commune becomes the figure for a history, and perhaps of a future, different from the course taken by capitalist modernization, on the one hand, and utilitarian state socialism, on the other.

This is a project that I think many people today share, and the Communal imaginary is central to that project. For this reason I’ve tried in the book to think about the Commune as both behind us, as belonging to the past, and as a kind of opening up, in the midst of our current struggles, of the field of possible futures.

Unlike “the universal republic,” “communal luxury” was not a resounding slogan of the Commune. I found the phrase tucked away in the final sentence of the manifesto artists and artisans produced under the Commune as they were organizing themselves into a federation. For me it became a kind of prism through which to refract a number of key inventions and ideas of the Commune.

The author of the phrase, decorative artist Eugène Pottier, is better known to us today as the author of another text, the Internationale, composed at the end of the Bloody Week before the blood of the massacres had dried. What he and the other artists meant by “communal luxury” was something like a program in “public beauty”: the enhancement of villages and towns, the right of every person to live and work in a pleasing environment.

[torontomarxists]

The Paris Commune of 1871 was one of the greatest and most inspiring episodes in the history of the working class. In a tremendous revolutionary movement, the working people of Paris replaced the capitalist state with their own organs of government and held political power until their downfall in the last week of May. The Parisian workers strove, in extremely difficult circumstances, to put an end to exploitation and oppression, and to reorganise society on an entirely new foundation. 130 years later the lessons of these events are of fundamental importance for socialists today.

[buddwing-blog]

Got our topics for our group presentation for the Nationalism State and Conflict part of the course last week. We got France. I'll be reading up on the Paris Commune tomorrow.