Sozialistische Klassiker

Schlagwort: French Revolution

  • Peter Taaffe: Citizens By Simon Schama

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    (Militant International Review, No. 43, Spring 1990) Published by Viking, 1989, £20 Reviewed by Peter Taaffe In last year’s avalanche of literature on the 200th anniversary of the French revolution, Simon Schama’s book Citizens was singled out by bourgeois reviewers. Little wonder for, as he admits, he adopts „the unfashionable top-down“ rather than „bottom-up“ approach.…

  • Peter Taaffe: 1797-1997 Gracchus Babeuf – Communist Pioneer

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    (Socialism Today No 18, May 1997) 27 May is the 200th anniversary of the death of Gracchus Babeuf, the great French revolutionary and ‚father of communism‘. Peter Taaffe looks at his life and legacy. Appropriately the anniversary of Babeuf’s death comes less than a month after the British general election whose victor, Tony Blair, ascended…