Reply to Angela, Ken M, Doug, and Z

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Kenneth Mackendrick wrote,


>  I have no idea what you are talking about. What's the Paris Commune? and 
is 
>  Thiers a typo? And who's Blanquist?

    Anyone who professes ignorance of Karl Marx's writings on the Paris 
Commune, or disparages them, or clowns about them, but professes to admire 
Marx's love of theory and philosophy, is unworthy of further discourse.

    In Frederick Engels's introduction to the 20th anniversary edition of 
that book by Karl Marx, he wrote, "Of late the Social-Democratic philistine 
has again been thrown into wholesome paroxisms by the expression 
'Dictatorship of the Proletariat.' Well and good, gentlemen, do you want to 
know what this dictatorship of the proletariat looks like? Then look at the 
Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."

    Engels must have been replying to the Mackendricks and Zizeks of 1891.

KL