{"product_id":"death-to-bourgeois-society-the-propagandists-of-the-deed-paperback","title":"Death to Bourgeois Society: The Propagandists of the Deed - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMitchell Abidor\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMitchell Abidor\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps no period has so marked, so deformed, or so defined the anarchist movement as the three years in France from 1892 to 1894, the years known as the Age of Attentats, the years dominated by the Propagandists of the Deed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeath to Bourgeois Society\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of four young anarchists who were guillotined in France in the 1890s. Their courage was motivated by noble ideals whose realization they saw their bombs and assassinations as hastening. In a time of cynicism and political decay for many, they represented a purity lacking in society, and their actions when they were captured, their forthrightness, their defiance up to the guillotine only added to their luster.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe texts collected in \u003cem\u003eDeath to Bourgeois Society\u003c\/em\u003e focus on the main avatars of this movement: the grave robber\/murderer\/terrorist Ravachol; Auguste Vaillant, who bombed the Chamber of Deputies; Emile Henry, who attacked both the bourgeois in their class function and their very existence; and the Italian immigrant Santo Caserio, who brought down the curtain on the age when he assassinated the French president Sadi Carnot.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume contains key first person narratives of the events, from Ravachol's forbidden speech and his account of his life, to Henry's questioning at his trial and his programmatic letter to the director of the prison in which he was held, to Vaillant's confrontation with the investigators immediately after tossing his bomb, and Caserio's description of the assassination and his defense at his trial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMitchell Abidor\u003c\/b\u003e is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive and has published several collections of his translations. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eVoices of the Paris Commune\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45615326363692,"sku":"9781629631127","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/smartsupplydeals.com\/products\/death-to-bourgeois-society-the-propagandists-of-the-deed-paperback","provider":"Smart supply deals","version":"1.0","type":"link"}