addresses made by Karl Marx to the members of the original Communist International on the occasion of the Franco Prussian War and the rising and crushing of the Commune. These are introduced by an essay on the Paris rising written by Frederick Engels twenty years later, and followed by a series of essays by V. I. Lenin, written in the wake of the first abortive Russian Revolution of 1905. (The current edition also has a final essay by one Nikita Federovsky, evidently of recent date.)
Civil War in France: The Paris Commune is not a significant source for the ideas or ideals of Karl Marx or of Marxism in general. Marx makes no deep analysis of the root condi
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