Abstract

What does the Paris Comunne convene us to think? How can we return to an event that has established the revolutionary memory? We propose to reread Karl Marx´s The Civil War in France in order to explore one of the possible answers to the question that both actors and spectators of the Paris Communne have asked to themselves: What is the Commune? We are searching, with Marx, for the veins of an answer that, considering the plural temporality and the social heterogeneity, allow us to think the relationship between politics, the social question and history. In this path, we read the Paris Commune as a first formulation of that which, years later, will appear in the letters to Vera Zasúlich about the Russian rural commune, and that will lead us to recover the commune´s enigma and its interrupted reverberations throughout revolutionary struggles.