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Nov 12, 2018 · Blanqui’s Eternity by the Stars is the late, phantasmagoric manifesto of a man who had been condemned to prison for the better part of his life on account of his radical politics.
Louis Auguste Blanqui (French pronunciation: [lwi oɡyst blɑ̃ki]; 8 February 1805 – 1 January 1881) was a French socialist, political philosopher and political activist, notable for his revolutionary theory of Blanquism. Biography. Early life, political activity and first imprisonment (1805–1848)
Feb 9, 2017 · Blanqui’s legend began to grow, and more people learned of Mont-Saint-Michel’s unforgivable treatment of its prisoners. By 1844, it had taken its toll on Blanqui’s health, and he lay dying in his cell. To avoid creating a martyr, Louis-Philippe pardoned him, but Blanqui defiantly stayed in prison with his comrades.
The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that “Blanquism” is “the doctrine that socialist revolution must be initiated by a small conspiratorial group, advocated by the French revolutionary communist Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881)”. [2]
In a century replete with radical politics, final liberations, historical codas, and dreams of eternity, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui, the constant revolutionary, wrote Eternity by the Stars in the last months of 1871 while incarcerated in Fort du Taureau, a marine cell of the English Channel.
Auguste Blanqui and his legacy: writings, manuscripts, resources. Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) was one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century French revolutionary politics, and he played a role in all of the great upheavals that punctuated his life – the insurrections of 1830, 1848 and 1870-71.
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Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805–1881) was one of the most revered, dedicated, and uncompromising communist revolutionaries of the nineteenth century. He had participated in five abortive revolutions from 1830 to 1870.
