Pick Up The Rifle: Engels, the Commune, and the Unforgiving Science of Revolution

In his 1891 Introduction to The Civil War in France, Frederick Engels reloaded the most dangerous weapon the working class has ever forged: the truth that the state must be smashed, not reformed. Drawing on the blood-soaked memory of the Paris Commune, Engels warned that the dictatorship of the proletariat is not a slogan but... Continue Reading →

July 18, 2025 0

Storming Heaven: Karl Marx, the Paris Commune, and the Birth of Proletarian Statecraft

In The Civil War in France, Karl Marx did not romanticize revolution—he studied it, dissected it, and returned its lessons to the working class as weapons. From the smashing of the bourgeois state to the early contours of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Paris Commune revealed the shape of worker power in embryo. This... Continue Reading →

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