Kristin Ross is a professor of comparative literature at New York University and the author of Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune.
Thinkers like Karl Marx and Peter Kropotkin identified the commune as the political framework for a transformed, radically democratic society. We can find examples of this in some of the key social and environmental struggles of the world today.
What can the Paris Commune offer to present struggles for emancipation?