The first proletariat dictatorship

The Commune remains, despite its short-lived existence, a testimony to the human will to rise against regimes

Paris Commune 150

Author: Karl Marx, V I Lenin, Bertolt Brecht, Tings Chak, Vijay Prashad

Publisher: LeftWord Books

Pages: 108

Price: Rs 195

The late 1920s and 1930s saw Indian communists organising themselves into a party; they later lived in small “communes” in places like Bombay for example. The establishment of communes across the Soviet Union and China had historically established the idea of living in large communes, where resources were supposed to be owned and managed by the community. For generations, this has emerged as the only effective alternative design of socio-economic and cultural life to the one brought about by capitalism in modern