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The Future of Revolution - by Jasper Bernes (Hardcover)

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  • How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed?
  • About the Author: Jasper Bernes lives in Oakland and teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • 192 Pages
  • Political Science, Political Economy

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About the Book



"Explores the possibilities for overcoming class society in the 21st century"--



Book Synopsis



How might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed?

Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R. James, The Future of Revolution illuminates the possibilities for overcoming class society in the twenty-first century.

When Marx wrote that the Paris Commune of 1871 showed that "the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes," he identified a principle that will remain true as long as capitalism and its class antagonism persist. Historical revolutions reveal essential features of our communist horizon, which would-be revolutionaries, then as now, must negotiate one way or another. In chapters that move from a critical history of the workers' council to a reading of Marx's theory of value as an inverted description of communism, Jasper Bernes synthesizes from a history of failure the key criteria for success. He defines for our present moment the urgent mission of the world proletariat.



Review Quotes




"[Jasper's work is] sobering and optimistic at once"
--Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick

"Bernes is working with a remarkably sophisticated and resilient new critical model which will doubtless have a lot of traction in the years ahead"
--Julian Murphet, Affirmations: Of the Modern

"Bernes' wonderfully detailed historical analyses of workers' councils and communes serves as the basis for important and provocative proposals for the tasks of communist thought and action today."
--Michael Hardt, author of The Subversive Seventies

"In this extraordinary study into revolutionary histories and possibilities, Jasper Bernes does not let his reader off lightly. He pushes us to think hard alongside him about the logics and activities of collective emancipation--in this task, we couldn't ask for a more brilliant guide than Bernes. We need this book now, and will continue to need it long into the future."
--Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life

"A rescue project for the radical imagination, Bernes draws together a new lineage of communist thought and action that will leave readers raring to go make a new world."
--Malcolm Harris, author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World



About the Author



Jasper Bernes lives in Oakland and teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. A regular contributor to the Field Notes section of the Brooklyn Rail, he is the author of The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization and two books of poetry, We Are Nothing and So Can You and Starsdown.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.3 Inches (H) x 5.8 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: Political Science
Sub-Genre: Political Economy
Publisher: Verso
Format: Hardcover
Author: Jasper Bernes
Language: English
Street Date: May 13, 2025
TCIN: 93073655
UPC: 9781788737531
Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-7642
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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