{"product_id":"9781608461189","title":"The Paris Commune: A Revolution in Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor two months in 1871, the workers of Paris took control of Europe’s most celebrated capital city. When they established the world’s first workers’ democracy—the Paris Commune—they found no ready-made blueprints, and no precedents to study for how to run their city without princes, prison wardens, or professional politicians. All they had was the boundless revolutionary enthusiasm of Paris’s socialists, communists, anarchists, and radical Jacobins, all of whom threw their energies into creating a new society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the city’s bakers, industrial workers, and other “ruffians” built new institutions of collective political power to overturn social and economic inequality, their former rulers sought to thwart their efforts by any means necessary—ultimately deciding to drown the Communards in blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy paying particular attention to the historic problems of the Commune, critical debates over its implications, and the glimpse of a better world the Commune provided, Gluckstein reveals its enduring lessons and inspiration for today’s struggles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonny Gluckstein\u003c\/b\u003e is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Nazis, Capitalism and the Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy of Bukharin\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a lecturer in history in Edinburgh and is a member of the Socialist Workers Party.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031391322352,"sku":"9781608461189","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608461189_p0.jpg?v=1763832340","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608461189","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}