The Paris Commune of 1871

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As with most experiments in non-crapitalust management of society, this one also ended in bloodshed.

The people saw that thinking things not approved by the gov't was bad, and didn't do that again, for awhile.

I. The Place of the Commune in Socialist Evolution On March 18, 1871, the people of Paris rose against a despised and detested government, and proclaimed the city independent free, belonging to itself. 

This overthrow of the central power took place without the usual stage effects of revolution, without the firing of guns, without the shedding of blood upon barricades. 

When the armed people came out into the streets, the rulers fled away, the troops evacuated the town, the civil functionaries hurriedly retreated to Versailles carrying everything they could with them. 

The government evaporated like a pond of stagnant water in a spring breeze, and on the nineteenth the great city of Paris found herself free from the impurity which had defiled her, with the loss of scarcely a drop of her children's blood.  

Yet the change thus accomplished began a new era in that long series of revolutions whereby the peoples are marching from slavery to freedom. 

Under the name Commune of Paris a new idea was born, to become the starting point for future revolutions.  

II. How the Commune Failed to Realize Its True Aim and Yet Set That Aim Before the World 

Ten years already separate us from the day when the people of Paris overthrew the traitor government which raised itself to power at the downfall of the empire; how is it that the oppressed masses of the civilized world are still irresistibly drawn toward the movement of 1871? 

Why is the idea represented by the Commune of Paris so attractive to the workers of every land, of every nationality?  

III. The Teachings of the Commune in Modern Socialism 

The next rising of communes will not be merely a communal movement. 

Those who still think that independent, local self-governing bodies must be first established and that these must try to make economic reforms within their own localities are being carried along by the further development of the popular spirit, at least in France. 

The communes of the next revolution will proclaim and establish their independence by direct socialist revolutionary action, abolishing private property. 

When the revolutionary situation ripens, which may happen any day, and governments are swept away by the people, when the middle-class camp, which only exists by state protection, is thus thrown into disorder, the insurgent people will not wait until some new government decrees, in its marvelous wisdom, a few economic reforms.  

Keep working, stop paying.  

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-commune-of-paris 

http://listverse.com/2016/06/29/10-instances-of-anarchist-societies-that-actually-worked/

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