(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL (#252) n° spécial -
Read: Kristin Ross, "The Imaginary of the Commune" (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation]
Kristin Ross is particularly known in France for his work on May 68 and his "future
lives", where she analyzed how well the event was transformed into the imaginary French
policy to phase out its subversive nature. After addressing the Commune of 1871 through
Rimbaud [1], it published last January a new book on the Commune and his imagination,
trying to do the opposite of "work" of journalists on May 68. Starting people, famous or
fallen into anonymity, communards or contemporary observers, she emerged from the Paris
Commune she had more subversive and more fruitful. ---- Almost without addressing the
narrative of events, Kristin Ross is interested in the thought of the Commune and
especially extensions of this thought in the dark years that followed the bloody week.
Between the English poet William Morris, few libertarians geographers such Reclus, Peter
Kropotkin, Leon Metchnikoff, the amazing Napoleon Gaillard, "artist chaussurier" and some
others, the revolutionary thought of the Commune did not stop the massacre May 1871.
Kristin Ross has chosen to ignore all a "neo-Jacobin" pan or Blanquist of the Commune
(although a majority in the elections), to be interested in those who, day by day, trying
to implement revolutionary projects in various fields. It shows us how the times communard
and his ideas about art, federalism, ecology and internationalism have survived to the
point that we now seem more contemporary than ever.
Gaby L. (AL Alsace)
Kristin Ross, The Imaginary of the Commune, La Fabrique, 2015, 186 pages, 14 euros.
[1] Rimbaud, the Paris Commune and the invention of space history, Ordinary Prairies, 2013.
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