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The Blanqui reader : political writings, 1830-1880 /

Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) was one of the most important and controversial figures in nineteenth-century French revolutionary politics, and he played a major role in all of the great upheavals that punctuated his life, the insurrections of 1830, 1848 and 1870-1871. Adamant that a just and ega...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blanqui, Auguste, 1805-1881 (Author)
Other Authors: Le Goff, Philippe, 1957- (Editor, Translator), Hallward, Peter (Editor, Translator), Abidor, Mitchell (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: London ; Brooklyn, New York : Verso, [2018]
Subjects:
Blanqui, Auguste, > 1805-1881. > Works. > Selections. > English.
Socialism > France > History > 19th century.
France > Politics and government > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Blanqui our contemporary? / Peter Hallward
  • First Proclamation
  • Declaration of the Provisional Committee for Schools
  • Auguste Blanqui's defence speech at the "Trial of the Fifteen"
  • Report to the Society of the Friends of the People
  • Equality is our flag
  • Why there are no more riots
  • Social wealth must belong to those who created it
  • Democratic propaganda
  • Blanqui's notes for his defence at the "Gunpowder Trial"
  • Initiation ceremony of the Society of the Seasons
  • Speech at the Prado
  • For the Red Flag
  • Second Petition for the Postponing of Elections
  • To the Democratic Clubs of Paris
  • Address to the Provisional Government
  • The Massacre in Rouen: The Central Republican Society to the Provisional Government
  • The Union of True Democrats
  • Response to the Request for a Toast for a Workers' Banquet
  • To the mountain of 1793! To the pure socialists, its true heirs!
  • On revolution
  • Warning to the people
  • Concerning the clamour against the "Warning to the People"
  • Work, suffer and die
  • Letter from Maillard to Blanqui
  • Letter to Maillard
  • Letter to Tessy
  • Thought, ideas, morality
  • Commitment, volition and free will
  • Science and materialism
  • Spiritualism and religion
  • Education and freedom of the press
  • Paris
  • Social conflict
  • Capital and labour
  • Revolution and popular power
  • The French Revolution and the terror of 1793
  • Political violence
  • The army
  • Socialism and equality
  • The revolutionary party
  • Letter to Blanqui's supporters in Paris
  • The sects and the Revolution
  • fatal, fatalism, fatality
  • Instructions for an armed uprising
  • Notes on positivism
  • Communism, the future of society
  • One last word
  • Eternity by the stars.