One of the key tenants of radical political thought is that of self-emancipation as a means of breaking from the confines of social domination. This is almost explicitly observed in various Marxist texts, such as The Civil War in France, wherein the creation of the Paris Commune is used by Marx to exemplify the struggle for the creation of a working-class socialist government through self-emancipation. As stated in the text, the government created “was essentially a working-class government, the product of the struggle of the producing against the appropriating class, the political form at last discovered under which to work…
