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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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The Great French Revolution 1789–1793 :kropotkin-shining:
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The story of the Paris Commune (1871) by viki1999 :france-cool:
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The Women Incendiaries of the Paris Commune :feminism:
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Insurgent Communards: The Road to Revolution :red-fist:
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Fuck man my 15 year old cat seemed lethargic and wasn’t eating, and now the vet tells me all of a sudden it’s total renal failure and I have to get her euthanized because there are no treatments for it at her age
Just a couple days ago I am sitting with my sweet peeping little rescue black cat and now it’s over for her just like that
Well that’s it, goodbye Tulip 2009-2023, goodbye to your foot that couldn’t retract the claws all the way, goodbye to your pooping in the toilet, goodbye to those tufts on your ears, goodbye to your gorgeous eyes that first gave you away when I found you hiding abandoned in a bush
Tulip was very beautiful and im sure you gave her a great life and that she knew she was loved. i’m so sorry for your loss, we never do get enough time with the ones we love. sending you healing vibes now comrade
So glad I have other cats to cleave to, the silver lining here is that some grief can really sharpen how attached I get to these little guys.
hold your other little buddies tight my friend <3
. Kitties are the best. I’m sure you gave her a great life.
When I first rescued her she was a terrified little wisp, with an injured foot and her face riddled with botflies. No matter what, she was never ambiguous about her comfort. I think in the end this is what makes a rescue worth it, the worst was always behind her
Yeah, it doesn’t make them less gone, but it is at least some comfort knowing they got a longer and better life than they might have.
me at 19: this country fucking sucks. i want to live abroad
me at 23: i guess that’s unfeasable. maybe i’ll live in a different state at least
me at 26: ok so that’s probably also not gonna happen. hopefully one day i’ll live in the city that’s an hour and change away from my hometown
me at 30 (projected): what if i move my bed from one side of the room to the other. that’d switch things up a bit i reckon
that last one is gonna get hit hard by “ow my back hurts”
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In Civ VII American empire should have a unique improvement that turns any tile into a parking lot. All bonuses are negative but your empire will rebel unless you turn 12 new tiles into parking lots each turn.
It’s America’s path to a religious victory.
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GUESS WHO’S BACK! MY CAPS LOCK IS WORKING FINE, IM YELLING BECAUSE MY CAT IS SAFE AND SOUND.
I left the door open before work and she just was meowing next to her (full) food bowl when I walked in. I put the food back into the large Tupperware thing and poured some back out and she was very pleased.
Many thanks to everyone who sent advice, cat finding info, and words of kindness / encouragement.
Seriously, all of you made this a lot easier to deal with.
Things like “concepts” and “information” are bullshit. Real men only think about real things like cow or tree.
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CW: sex, Britney Spears, misogyny
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Man, Spears gets out of more than a decade of abuse and having no control over her life, after a lifetime of being made in to a sex object for profit, and when she’s finally free of all of that bullshit and decides to share her joy in her sexuality with a world that has lusted after her since she was 18, all people can do is slut shame her. It was fine when she was a product, but now that she’s a person sharing real, authentic joy it’s a problem, and they feel sorry for her, and why does she do this? I hate the way Americans cannot ever be normal about sex. I am kind of in awe that after all the shit and trauma she’s been through she still finds joy in dancing and performing for herself, on her own terms. This kinda hits close to home, me having severe mental health problems, her maybe/allegedly having mental health problems, and the whole world definitely believing she does and that her happiness must be evidence that she’s mentally ill.
They got me. That fucking Bezos boomed me. Just cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription that I didn’t know I was paying for.
Trump saying Mar A Lago is worth “50 to 100” times its appraised value is so fucking funny to me for some reason. At minimum he’s saying its worth 36 times more than the highest selling price of a property ever in the US
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When these flying fucks appear
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https://youtu.be/xn_h9L4l2Rg I was a kid when I had to fight them. These sounds still haunt me in my sleep
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St. Jiub your supreme act of generosity expressed as battle shall not beforgotten.
Are you a “turn off the fog so you can load Tamriel rebuilt and see the White-Gold Tower from your house player or a " the fog is important to maintaining the sense of scale of vvardenfell and should remain” player?
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