Louis-Auguste Blanqui was one of Marx's most formidable and uncompromising revolutionary socialist contemporaries. Marx admired Blanqui, while also differing from him in important ways, when it came to thinking the role of the proletarian masses in revolutionary change. He was born just over 212 years ago. Here, from the Verso website, is an essay on the French agitator and political prisoner by Doug Greene, author of a forthcoming study, Spectres of Communiism: Blanqui and Marx:
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