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

by Jasper Bernes (Author)

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 thinkers such as Marx and C. L. R. James, The Future of Revolution illuminates the possibilities for overcoming class society in the twenty-first century.

Author Biography

Jasper Bernes lives in Oakland and teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. A regular contributor to the Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail, he is the author of The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization and two books of poetry, We Are Nothing and So Can You and Starsdown.