The Civil War in France: the Paris Commune | 
pickGreat analysis of the overthrow of bourgeois society by the people and its eventual suppression by the collusion of Prussia and the French government.
pickGreat analysis of the overthrow of bourgeois society by the people and its eventual suppression by the collusion of Prussia and the French government.
“The working class did not expect miracles from the Commune. They have no ready-made utopias to introduce par décret du peuple. They know that in order to work out their own emancipation ... they will have to pass through long struggles ... transforming circumstances and men. They have no ideals to realize, but to set free the elements of the new society with which old collapsing bourgeois society itself is pregnant.”
