Book contents
- Revolutionary World
- Revolutionary World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Global Revolution
- 1 The Atlantic Revolutions
- 2 The Revolutionary Waves of 1848
- 3 The Worlds of the Paris Commune
- 4 The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions, 1905–1915
- 5 The Global Red Revolution
- 6 The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919
- 7 The Third World Revolutions
- 8 The Global Islamic Revolution
- 9 The Anticommunist Revolts of 1989
- 10 The Arab Uprisings
- Islands of Global Revolution
- Index
3 - The Worlds of the Paris Commune
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Book contents
- Revolutionary World
- Revolutionary World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Global Revolution
- 1 The Atlantic Revolutions
- 2 The Revolutionary Waves of 1848
- 3 The Worlds of the Paris Commune
- 4 The Global Wave of Constitutional Revolutions, 1905–1915
- 5 The Global Red Revolution
- 6 The Wilsonian Uprisings of 1919
- 7 The Third World Revolutions
- 8 The Global Islamic Revolution
- 9 The Anticommunist Revolts of 1989
- 10 The Arab Uprisings
- Islands of Global Revolution
- Index
Summary
At the height of the struggle of the Paris Commune, as events were unfolding before his eyes, the German revolutionary Karl Marx described the Paris Commune of 1871 as an event of global, even “universal historical importance.” Yet in other texts – not only The Civil War in France, which assessed the results of the Paris insurgency – the same Marx severely criticized the strategic choices of the Commune or the limitations in its patriotic dimension. These writings may reveal an uncertainty in Marx’s analysis, but, most of all, they reflect the persisting uncertainty of the Paris Commune.
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- Revolutionary WorldGlobal Upheaval in the Modern Age, pp. 92 - 110Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021