The Paris Commune remains alive

The Paris Commune was established 155 years ago, on March 18th, 1871. In Quentin Deluermoz's newly translated history of the commune, he shows how the Paris Commune reverberated around the globe, as a world revolutionary event and as a laboratory for republican and socialist ideas. 

"Unquestionably, the Paris Commune remains alive in the twenty-first century. It has taken on meanings of its own, on a global scale, extending beyond the ideological reinterpretations that accumulated around it during the twentieth century. Indeed, its meanings are still evolving. While the Commune remains synonymous with social struggle and the desire for equality, for instance, it is today more closely associated with the project of reappropriating democracy ‘from below’ than with the workers’ movements with which it was long identified. One cannot help but be struck by how multi-layered the Commune’s meanings are. This multiplicity reflects our contemporary moment – though not that alone. What about the events of 1871 that explains the Commune’s enduring presence, and its continual metamorphoses? And what might have escaped historians’ attention? The Paris Commune seeks to answer these questions."

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