Like most communist experiments: seemingly only occurs when massive breakdown in authority occurs or there’s no democratic institutions. The commune was a flash in the pan.
Bricklayer2021 on
Didn’t the Communards kill civilians (especially clergy)?
MuscularPhysicist on
Doomed to fail from the start. Once city could not stand against the whole of France.
Doesn’t make the atrocities committed against the Parisians remotely justifiable of course.
omnipotentsandwich on
I love Proudhon.
bhbhbhhh on
The suppression was tremendously sad, but I must admit that its failure made possible the general turn towards reformism in western socialism.
iamthecancer420 on
neutral, it didn’t last long enough for observations to be made outside of romanticism
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they were definitely communing
Like most communist experiments: seemingly only occurs when massive breakdown in authority occurs or there’s no democratic institutions. The commune was a flash in the pan.
Didn’t the Communards kill civilians (especially clergy)?
Doomed to fail from the start. Once city could not stand against the whole of France.
Doesn’t make the atrocities committed against the Parisians remotely justifiable of course.
I love Proudhon.
The suppression was tremendously sad, but I must admit that its failure made possible the general turn towards reformism in western socialism.
neutral, it didn’t last long enough for observations to be made outside of romanticism