The second of The Commune’s Bristol reading group sessions will be on Sunday 28th February at 6pm in Cafe Kino on Ninetree Hill, Stokes Croft, Bristol. The session will discuss late nineteenth century ideas on communism and anarchism and the significance of the Paris Commune of 1871
All welcome – email uncaptiveminds@gmail.com for more info. Some background reading which may be of interest is posted below.
Communism and Anarchism
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, 1848, chapter II, Proletarians and Communists
Kropotkin on anarchist communism: from The Conquest of Bread published in 1906, chapter 3 on anarchist communism
The Paris Commune
A Solidarity article and Marx’s take the on Paris Commune: see our pamphlet
Alternative source for Marx on the Paris Commune: The Civil War in France (1871).
Bakunin on the Paris Commune: The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State, (1871).
Situationist International on the Commune
Looking Beyond Labels
Sylvia Pankhurst on the necessity of looking beyond the labels anarchism and communism: ’What is behind a label – a plea for clearness‘, first published in Workers’ Dreadnought, 3rd November 1923.
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