AWL South London study group - The State and Revolution

Date: 
26 September, 2012 - 13:00 - 14:00
Location: 

London Bridge

Description: 

Chapter III: Experience of the Paris Commune of 1871. Marx's Analysis

Course notes: http://www.workersliberty.org/system/files/stateandrevolution.pdf
Text: http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/

1. How did Marx and Engels revise the Communist Manifesto?
2. What were the main measures taken by the Paris Commune?
3. What are the limits of bourgeois democracy and representative institutions generally?
4. Why does Lenin argue that the bureaucracy can’t be abolished immediately?
5. Why was the Paris Commune a “workers’ government”?

Contact Bob on 07843 945 005 or bobsutton1917@gmail.com