Marx in Paris, 1871: Book Launch w/ Michael Lowy & more

Published: May 23, 2022, 5:03 p.m.

b'Join Haymarket for a discussion celebrating the release of Olivier Besancenot and Michael L\\xf6wy\\u2019s Marx in Paris, 1871.\\n\\nThis deeply informed, eminently enjoyable work of historical fiction places Karl Marx in the thick of the unprecedented events of the Paris Commune. In disguise, employing imperfect but serviceable French, Karl and his eldest daughter, Jenny, encounter and debate many important figures of the movement, including L\\xe9o Frankel, Eug\\xe8ne Varlin, Charles Longuet, Elisabeth Dmitrieff, and Louise Michel, eventually returning to England with a profoundly changed sense of political possibility.\\n\\n\\u201cThis book adds to the tradition evolving since Marx and Lenin. Remarkably accessible, it refreshes, provokes, and thereby develops that movement still further.\\u201d \\u2014 Richard Wolff\\n\\n\\u201cThis fictional account is a remarkable piece of historical criticism and revolutionary imagination.\\u201d \\u2014Enzo Traverso\\n\\nGet Marx in Paris, 1871: Jenny\\u2019s \\u201cBlue Notebook\\u201d from Haymarket here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1770-marx-in-paris-1871\\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nSpeakers:\\n\\nMichael L\\xf6wy is emeritus research director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). His books, including On Changing the World and the Politics of Combined and Uneven Development, have been translated into thirty languages.\\n\\nNatalia Tylim is active in the NYC-DSA labor branch. She\\u2019s a restaurant worker, a founding member of DSA\\u2019s Restaurant Organizing Project, and a member of the Tempest Collective.\\n\\nValerio Arcary is a professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology in Brazil.\\n\\nTodd Chretien (moderator) is an organizer, author, translator, and high school Spanish teacher. He has contributed to several books, including Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics, and is editor of Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution.\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/HdPcBkE7OlM\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks'