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The Paris Commune, Marxism and Anarchism

category international | history | opinion / analysis author Friday June 13, 2008 18:03author by Anarchoauthor email cllv13 at geocities dot com Report this post to the editors

An analysis of the Paris Commune, using a new Leninist book as its basis. Indicates what lessons we can learn from it, while correcting various Leninist myths about anarchism in the process. Also discusses how Leninism distorts both anarchist and Marxist perspectives on the Commune and the state.

There are a few sure things about reading history books. Firstly, and most obviously, you generally know how it ends (badly, in the case of the Paris Commune). What is important is what you learn from the events discussed. Secondly, when it is a Marxist account you are guaranteed that it will (at best) ignore or (at worse) distort the anarchist involvement and analysis of events.

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The Paris Commune, Marxism and Anarchism
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/the-paris-commune-marxism-anarchism

This will appear in the next issue of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review.

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