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The communism we need - lines of flight of an anti-authoritarian “tradition”
Lines of flight of an anti-authoritarian “tradition” As André Breton
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class='autobr' /> 2. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “Provisional Statutes of the International Workers' Association”, in: Marx-Engels-Werke, Vol. 16, (East Berlin 1962). pp. 14–16.
3. Johannes Agnoli, The Subversive Theory “The Thing Itself” and its History (Freiburg 2014).
4. Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope. Volume 1 (Frankfurt 1985).
5. See Karl Marx, Capital. Criticism of political economy. Volume 1, in: Marx-Engels-Werke, Vol. 23 (East Berlin 1968), p. 451.
6. Ibid., p. 452.
7. See: Kristin Ross, Luxury for All. The political thought of the Paris Commune (Berlin 2021), Gerald Raunig, art and revolution. Artistic activism in the long 20th century (Vienna 2017), p. 119.
8. Whether these are particularly good conditions for an emancipatory revolution in society is, however, a completely different question.
9. Karl Marx, The Civil War in France, in: Marx-Engels-Werke Volume 17 (East Berlin 1961), pp. 313–365, here: 319.
10. Ibid., p. 342.
11. Ibid., p. 336.
12. See: Lukas Holfeld, “'Playing with weapons'. On the history of the Paris Commune of 1871,” in: Working Group on Art and Politics (ed.), Art, Spectacle and Revolution No. 4, Erfurt 2014, pp. 83–108.
13. See MEW 17, p. 347.
14. Ibid., p. 362.
15. Lenin's afterword from November 1917 is legendary: "This work was written in August and September 1917. [...] However, the second part of this work (which will be dedicated to the 'Experiences of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917') will probably have to be postponed for a long time; it is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'Experiences of the Revolution' than to write about them."
16. V. I. Lenin, State and Revolution. Marxism's doctrine of the state and the tasks of the proletariat in the revolution, in: Works, Vol. 25 (East Berlin 1960), pp. 393–507, here: p. 428.
17. Ibid., p. 438.
18. Peter Watkins' film The Paris Commune from 2000, which lasts more than five hours, gives an idea of this. For this film, Watkins had amateur actors, most of whom were political activists, re-enact central episodes of the Paris Commune (a so-called re-enactment). He didn't draft a strict script, but instead relied on improvisation and the stubbornness of the actors. The dynamics unleashed already show how inspiring general self-government and the expulsion of those in power can be. One can imagine that this enthusiastic dynamic was many times stronger during the historic event of the Commune.
19. Peter Weiss, The Aesthetics of Resistance, Vol. 2, Frankfurt 1983, p. 153.
20. Kristin Ross, Luxury for All. The political thought of the Paris Commune, Berlin 2021, p. 77.
21. See Raunig, Art and Revolution, p. 164.
22. Ibid., p. 16.
23. Guy Debord, Attila Kotanyi & Raoul Vanegem, Thèses situationnistes sur la Commune de Paris, March 18, 1962. On-line:https://www.persee.fr/doc/autog_0338-7259_1971_num_15_1_997"class="spip_url spip_out auto" rel="nofollow external">https://www.persee.fr/doc/autog_0338-7259_1971_num_15_1_997
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