Karl Marx 
The Paris Commune (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 
Including the First Manifesto

This collection of essays on the Paris Commune of 1871 includes works by Marx, Freidrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and Vladimir Lenin.  Marx viewed the Commune as a confirmation of his theories, and his analysis, while self-serving, is brilliant.  The contributions of the other writers are no less fascinating from a theoretical and historical standpoint.

A propos de l’auteur

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German political philosopher, writer, and revolutionary.  With Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), he wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848), perhaps the most influential political tract since The Declaration of Independence.  Living in England, he composed his masterpiece, Das Kapital (1867-94), a comprehensive history and critique of capitalism.