Summary
Christine Ross: Communal Lux
Christine Ross's new book on the thought and culture of the 1871 Communist uprising resonates with the motives and actions of contemporary protest that found its strongest expression in the reestablishment of public space. Today's problems – internationalism, education, the future of work, the status of art, and ecological theory and practice – frame and inform her meticulously researched reconstruction of the words and deeds of individual Communards. This original analysis of the event and its centrifugal effects brings to life the workers in Paris who became revolutionaries, the importance they attached to their struggle, and the elaboration and continuation of their thought in the meetings that took place between the surviving rebels and supporters of the Commune such as Marx, Kropotkin and William Morris. "Communal Luxury" allows readers to revisit the intricate workings of this extraordinary experiment.
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