The Blanqui reader
Subtitle: political writings, 1830-1880
By: Louis Auguste Blanqui ; edited by Philippe Le Goff and Peter Hallward ; translated by Philippe Le Goff, Peter Hallward and Mitchell Abidor
Contributors: Le Goff, Philippe, 1957- editor, translator; Hallward, Peter, editor, translator; Abidor, Mitchell, translator
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781786635013
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Politics and government; Socialism; History
Work titles: Works
Description: "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 egalitarian society can only be established by revolutionary means, he recognised that no revolution can succeed if it fails to overcome the coercive resources of the state, and no revolutionary government can endure if it betrays the principles that alone earn and deserve mass support. This is the first collection of Blanqui's political writings ever published in English, and it includes new and complete translations of his best known texts: Instructions for an armed uprising and Eternity by the atars"--
Notes: Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Blanqui our contemporary? / Peter Hallward; title: First Proclamation; title: Declaration of the Provisional Committee for Schools; title: Auguste Blanqui's defence speech at the "Trial of the Fifteen"; title: Report to the Society of the Friends of the People; title: Equality is our flag; title: Why there are no more riots; title: Social wealth must belong to those who created it; title: Democratic propaganda; title: Blanqui's notes for his defence at the "Gunpowder Trial"; title: Initiation ceremony of the Society of the Seasons; title: Speech at the Prado; title: For the Red Flag; title: Second Petition for the Postponing of Elections; title: To the Democratic Clubs of Paris; title: Address to the Provisional Government; title: The Massacre in Rouen: The Central Republican Society to the Provisional Government; title: The Union of True Democrats; title: Response to the Request for a Toast for a Workers' Banquet; title: To the mountain of 1793! To the pure socialists, its true heirs!; title: On revolution; title: Warning to the people; title: Concerning the clamour against the "Warning to the People"; title: Work, suffer and die; title: Letter from Maillard to Blanqui; title: Letter to Maillard; title: Letter to Tessy; title: Thought, ideas, morality; title: Commitment, volition and free will; title: Science and materialism; title: Spiritualism and religion; title: Education and freedom of the press; title: Paris; title: Social conflict; title: Capital and labour; title: Revolution and popular power; title: The French Revolution and the terror of 1793; title: Political violence; title: The army; title: Socialism and equality; title: The revolutionary party; title: Letter to Blanqui's supporters in Paris; title: The sects and the Revolution; title: fatal, fatalism, fatality; title: Instructions for an armed uprising; title: Notes on positivism; title: Communism, the future of society; title: One last word; title: Eternity by the stars.