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A review by sinceremercy
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
4.0
This is not a history of the Paris Commune!
Assuming at least basic familiarity with and understanding of the events of the Commune, the book proceeds to discuss the ideas that were born with and from it. It discusses the generation of ideas that would later become the foundation of anarchist communism and the way in which the Commune, simply through its own establishment, proved transformative to movements the world over. It makes a compelling argument about the ways in which theory and action are, or ought to be, inseparable from one another, all the while detailing, just as the subtitle says, the "imaginary" of the Commune.
Assuming at least basic familiarity with and understanding of the events of the Commune, the book proceeds to discuss the ideas that were born with and from it. It discusses the generation of ideas that would later become the foundation of anarchist communism and the way in which the Commune, simply through its own establishment, proved transformative to movements the world over. It makes a compelling argument about the ways in which theory and action are, or ought to be, inseparable from one another, all the while detailing, just as the subtitle says, the "imaginary" of the Commune.