Required Reading

Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” Section I: February 1848 — December 1851 esp. paragraphs 1-2

Marx, “Civil War in France,” Section III: The Paris Commune

Kristin Ross, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune, Chapter 1: ‘Beyond the Cellular Regime of Nationality’, pp. 22 - 47 in linked digital copy or pp. 11-29 in the print edition.

Recommended Reading

Walter Benjamin, “Critique of Violence”

Walter Benjamin, “On the Concept of History”

Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”

Marx, “Civil War in France”

Kristin Ross, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune