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L'Internationale :france-cool:

The Paris Commune was established on 18 March 1871, but its roots can be traced right back to 1848, when a wave of democratic revolution originating in France washed across the European continent

In France, the democratic revolution was defeated in a matter of months, ending with the bloody suppression of a workers’ revolt protesting against the closure of the national workshops in June 1848. Despite this, the street fighting of this period laid the foundations for the establishment of an autonomous French workers’ movement, which operated independently of the centrist bourgeois political parties—a key prerequisite for the formation of the 72-day-long “Republic of Workers” in 1871.

Following the defeat of the uprising, however, a military dictatorship initially asserted control, before handing the reins to Napoleon III a few months later. East of the Rhine, in a fragmented Germany, monarchic powers were also able to put down revolutionary efforts and defeat the democracy movement. The latter’s demand for German national unity was subsequently co-opted “from above”, redefined and positioned as a project designed to suit the Prussian-led response. The policies pursued by the Prussian crown were geared towards preserving monarchic power while also seeking to unify Germany, this would led to the Franco-Prussian War.

During the Franco-Prussian war the then Emperor Napoleon III was capture during the Battle of Sedan. This sudden defeat sealed the fate of the Second French Empire, but did not signify the end of the war, with the Prussian troops marching onwards towards Paris with the aim of capturing it.

Following the defeat at the Battle of Sedan, the Third Republic was proclaimed in Paris, despite a complete lack of democratic legitimacy. Although the empire’s political and military failures meant it had been discredited, the Republic did not act to remove the monarchy. According to Marx, the measures taken by the government were evidence that they had “inherited from the empire not only ruins, but also its dread of the working class”.

By the beginning of October 1870, Paris was under total siege, beset on all sides by Prussian forces, and attempts to break the siege line with troops from the provinces had also failed. At the end of January 1871, Jules Favre, minister of foreign affairs for the Provisional Government of National Defence, signed an armistice with the newly formed German Empire

The armistice treaty stipulated that only a freshly elected National Assembly would have the power to ratify an eventual peace treaty. The assembly first met on 12 February in Bordeaux—far removed from the nation’s capital, which remained in a state of total siege by German troops.

In Paris, both the choice of location for the National Assembly as well as the make-up of the new government were viewed as betrayals of those who had spent months defending the capital against the siege.

In order to defend Paris against the German troops, in September 1870 the Thiers-led government had reorganized the National Guard and enlisted unemployed men into its regiments. This led to a change in the military’s demographic character; National Guard soldiers deposed their officers, elected new commanders from within their own ranks, and also established their own governing body, the Central Committee of the National Guard.

Having failed to capture the cannons and surprised by the workers’ resolve, Thiers decided to decamp the capital and head to Versailles, accompanied by his government and loyalist army regiments. That they were able to flee the city with ease was due to the fact that the National Guard battalions—anticipating a renewed attack by government forces—had barricaded themselves in their neighbourhood strongholds or otherwise directed their movements to avoid a confrontation.

As the sun set over Paris that evening, power in the French capital essentially resided on the streets. Given this situation, the National Guard’s Central Committee decided to cobble together a provisional government. The majority of the Parisian population first learnt of the shift that had occurred in their city the following morning, when the Central Committee occupied the Hôtel de Ville, raised a red flag, and addressed the city’s residents with their first proclamation:

You charged us with organizing the defence of Paris and of your rights.

We are conscious of having fulfilled this mission: aided by your generous courage and your admirable calm, we have chased out the government that betrayed us.

At this time our mandate has expired, and we yield it, for we don’t claim to be taking the place of those who a revolutionary wind has just overthrown.

So prepare and carry out your communal elections, and as a reward give us the only one we ever wished for: seeing you establish the true republic.

In the meanwhile, in the name of the people we will remain at the Hôtel-de-Ville.

The provisional government’s first official act was publishing a call for elections to determine the make-up of the Commune Council. The revolution of the previous day had laid the foundations for a French republic that would permanently “mark the end of the era of invasions and civil war”. Additionally, the Central Committee saw itself as the force that had defended Paris and one which would now return control of the city to its residents through the council elections.

The election took place less than ten days later, on 26 March; just two days later, the Paris Commune officially came into being. Given the urgency of organizing an election within such a short timeframe, there was scant discussion about the Commune’s actual political programme in those first few days. For this reason—according to Prosper Lissagaray, himself a Communard—votes were primarily cast based on name recognition. Consequently, the Commune Council ended up comprising a colourful mixture of Jacobins, socialists, anarchists, Romantics, and representatives of the bourgeoise opposition to Napoleon III. This meant that the Commune included powerful factions that took their political inspiration from the concepts of the bourgeoise French Revolution of 1789 right alongside proto-socialists, anarchists, and Marxists. This diversity of political positions was reflective of the century of class struggle that had preceded the founding of the Commune.

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my partner told me to tell all of u that u shuld eat glue for being liberals, just to let you know

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

It's incredible just how much more interesting and challenging the median university course is compared to the median related job.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The woke mind virus has finally made its way to China of all places. Apparently women no longer hold up half the sky, they get a third at most now but the radical gender ideologists want to make it so women only hold up 1/32 of the sky to make room for all the new genders. 🙄🙄🙄

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

after avoiding intimacy for my entire life, today I've decided that I would like a wife. any takers?

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I love runnin my shower hot and filling up my bathroom with steam while i sit and look at shit on my phone, like a sauna

The problem is the mold loves it too

You'd think bathrooms would be built in such a way that a hot shower would not destroy them

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cannot sleep. Brain demands I read more. Fuck you, grey matter, there will be time in the morning for gay mecha. niko-yawn

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Doing character assassination with the-doohickey

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Guy 1: "Please submit a data request"

...

Me: "I didn't hear back about the data request"

Guy 1: "Did you follow up?"

Me:."With whom?"

Guy 1: "Maybe you need manager's approval"

Me: "My manager or yours?"

...

Email their manager. They email guy 1.

Guy 1: "our records indicate you never submitted a form. Did you submit one?" * links to a different form that I don't have access to *

This is a very special bureaucratic hell designed to drive me insane. I've also made it very clear to them that I need data missing from prod, so I'm looking for the backups. I'm literally submitting a data request so when it comes in I can go "oh look it's missing in prod can you check the backups now?"

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Last night I had a dream where I let a beautiful woman carve words into my forehead with a razor. I remember thinking that she was really good at it because she did it really quickly and it only stung a little bit while the cuts were being made and after she was done there was no pain. It was weirdly sensual. Unfortunately I cant remember what the words were now... I'm sure that's fine, nothing to worry about. Im sure I wasnt cursed by a demon or anything.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Now that's the kind of incredible horror dream I can support. Get yourself a lady that'll carve words into.you with a razor, with skill comfy-cool

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I just explained Sagging becoming a culture war issue like fourteen years ago to someone.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

every time theres a post asking for peoples ironic conspiracy theories about X event on here i uncritically absorb every single theory in the replies and go forward with my life considering them all to be canon

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

reading a bit of the 3 body problem, it's very funny that the book starts off with a struggle session

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

"Nice Commune you've got there. Be a shame if someone wrote a critique of it!" marx-joker

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

rage-cry JOE BRANDON GAVE MY KID PRONOUNS

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Group interview

11 interviewees

2 of them are alums of the youth program the org puts on, and I'm not

it's so joever

(at least I'll find out if I'm moving on to round 2/2 EOD Thursday)

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damn, i was about to go on a walk but it sounds like someone shot a gun, probably just a car making a dumbass sound but still idk

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Did yall hear about the Andrew Huberman thing? Being a 50 year old guy with 6 girlfriends who don't know about each other is obviously a horrible thing to do but it's also kinda funny. Like, what's the endgame here? You're gonna marry six women and hope they don't find out about each other?

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My back was feeling sore. Feels kind of weird to be using my hitachi as a back massager but it works.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

it's time to sleep and let marx mess with my dreams again because I need to stop reading before bed time

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I was inspired by the Garfield without Garfield comic strip edits so I decided to make my own. It's called Homophobic Heathcliff and you won't believe what this darn cat gets up to!

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

tfw I have to hold a plushie when watching emotional or scary shit now

estrogen is a hell of a drug

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

the iranian intermezzo in ck3 is pretty great, i think im inspired to do some abbasid stuff in m2tw to flesh it out

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Random bethesda thoughts

spoilerStarfield new game plus being a soul sucking grind that ultimately is not fun COULD actually be an interesting meta-narrative point,.....if only you could permanently reject being a starborn like maybe close the unity or something.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I saw that Bethesda has a "playable" version of ESVI and all I could think is that it's impossible because modders haven't fixed it yet.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Joe Lieberman is fucking dead crab-party

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Diplomacy is just being paid to rizz up other countries

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

fuck landlords
fuck cars

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

god damn forgot that getting a vaccine often makes you feel like absolute dogshit for a single day

i'm shaking and my eyes feel like lumps of slag fresh from the furnace

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Pozen Frizza peppino-groovin

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

meow-bounce I caught up with last weeks reading of das kapital, and partially of this week. Hopefully I can finish this weeks. I like the weekly book club since it gives me something to do for the week. And having something to do in general, helps a little with my mental health. I also took some ibuprofen earlier and that been very helpful, and made me feel better

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

If you ever want to know what oil field workers spend their blood money on, it's mushroom gatcha games

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