Written: Charlottenburg, Berlin, June 1919.
Translated: W.H. Kerridge.
Published: The National Labour Press Ltd.
Transcribed: Ted Crawford for marxists.org, June 2002. [1].
Preface
I. Revolution and Terror
II. Paris
III. The Great Revolution
IV. The First Paris Commune
The Paris Proletariat and Its Fighting Methods
The Failure of Terrorism
V. The Traditions of the Reign of Terror
VI. The Second Paris Commune
The Origin of the Commune
Workmen’s Councils and the Central Committee
The Jacobins in the Commune
The International and the Commune
The Socialism of the Commune
Centralisation and Federalism
Terrorist Ideas of the Commune
VII. The Effect of Civilisation on Human Customs
Brutality and Humanity
Two Tendencies
Slaughter and Terrorism
The Humanising of Conduct in the Nineteenth Century
The Effects of the War
VIII. The Communists at Work
Expropriation and Organisation
The Growth of the Proletariat
The Dictatorship
Corruption
The Change in Bolshevism
The Terror
The Outlook for the Soviet Republic
The Outlook for the World Revolution
Transcriber’s Note1. Apart from correcting typographical errors I have changed few words, largely proper nouns where I have used the standard word or spelling or where the meaning was obvious and there was a standard expression. I have also changed the titles of a number of literature references to the more commonly used English ones on the MIA. Otherwise this version is that of 1919. The whole work badly needs a new translation as this one is clearly rather poor and hurried. (A note on terminology: The translator uses the term “middle class” instead to the more usual terms “bourgeoisie” and “bourgeois” in modern Marxist discourse. This is also the case with “small middle class” for “petty bourgeoisie” and “petty bourgeois”. - MIA) |
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