The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising

How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed?

Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R. James, The Future of Revolution illuminates the possibilities for overcoming class society in the twenty-first century.

When Marx wrote that the Paris Commune of 1871 showed that “the working class cannot simply lay hold ...