Paris Commune Archives - Public Seminar

Capitalism

Reconstructing Capital

The politics of translating Marx

December 6, 2024 • by Gant Roberson and William Clare Roberts

Gant Roberson interviews William Clare Roberts about the evolving relevance of Marxist theory with the latest translation of Capital. ...

The Paris Commune of 1871 – Myth and Reality

It was not a spontaneous, prefigurative gathering of people waggling their fingers at a general assembly in the spirit of Occupy: it was a working government, and it passed a lot of decrees

April 28, 2021 • by Mitchell Abidor

_____ This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, often regarded as the first instance of the working-class seizing power and establishing a government dedicated to its interests. The uprising occurred in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, after the defeat of France, the collapse of Napoleon III’s Second Empire, ...

Communal Luxury

June 6, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

One of the constant labors required of an open, creative, critical and radical thought is a constant reconstitution of the archive from which present conceptual armatures might most usefully be drawn. Its not just a question of harping on certain well-known proper names, but constituting, over and over, a milieu ...