The Paris Commune: A Brief Blossoming of Proletarian Power

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🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mitchell Abidor is a leftist writer and translator. He is the principal French translator for the Marxist Internet Archive; Abidor has translated hundreds of texts, in multiple different languages, and published numerous collections from a myriad of radical political writers, from 17th Century France to Revolutionary Russia. His books include anthologies of the anarchist writings of Victor Serge, on the propagandists of the deed, the Paris Commune, the left of the French Revolution, and French anarchist individualists. He is also the author of, among other works, "Voices of the Paris Commune".

Find his profile on the Marxist Internet Archive here: https://www.marxists.org/admin/volunteers/biographies/mabidor.htm

Topics Include: The Paris Commune, French Napoleonic Imperialism, Marx and Engels, Anarchism, The Communards, Factions within the Commune, the role of Women in the Commune, The French Revolution, and much more!

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0:51.4	Welcome to revolutionary left radio I am your host and comrade Bredochet and today
1:14.8	we have Mitch Abadour on to talk about the Paris commune.
1:18.2	I am excited about this episode before we start though I want to give a shout out
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1:41.8	But let's go ahead and get into it I'm really excited for this episode Mitch so once you
1:44.6	go ahead and introduce yourself and say a little bit about your background.
1:47.6	Okay I'm Mitch Abadour and I'm very widely known in very small circles as translator of
1:58.6	stuff from mailing from the French revolutionary tradition but I've also done Portuguese
2:04.1	Spanish stuff mainly from Argentina Esperanto Italian and after doing over a thousand translations
2:13.2	for the Marxist Internet archive I've also done a number of books on the French Revolution
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