The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1870-1871
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/siege/index.html
Greg gboozell at juno.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> To: "LBO Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] The Paris Commune was proclaimed 136 years agotoday...
> Deja vu -- was reading about the Paris Commune
> recently and especially Marx & Engels' correspondence
> about it. Marx even went so far as to say, "Paris
> armed is the revolution armed," apparently.
>
> And let's not forget Louise Michel:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Michel
>
> The amount of working class organization, which
> included paupers, the unemployed, housewives, etc.,
> was remarkable, and it did end in a horrible, tragic
> bloodbath, one of history and humanity's great shames
> of the past few centuries. I think it's indeed worth
> remembering.
>
> Another important date coming up soon is April 24,
> Martyr's Day, the date to commemorate the victims of
> the 1915 genocide waged against Armenian. Even my
> friend of Armenian descent, however, refuses to claim
> the Armenian genocide as the 1st genocide of the 20th
> century, preferring instead to state that the 1st
> genocide of the 20th century was the ongoing war
> against Native Americans in N. America that began in
> 1492 and continued into the 20th.
>
>
> -B.
>
>
> Mike Ballard wrote:
>> "It was the best of times. It was the worst of
> times.." Everyone knows
>> about those State murders. Hardly anyone knows about
> the Commune nor that
>> twice as many were murdered execution style in its
> aftermath.
>>
>> 1871: The Paris Commune
>>
>> A brief history of the world's first socialist
> working class uprising.
>> The workers of Paris, joined by mutinous National
> Guardsmen, seized the
>> city and set about re-organising society in their
> own interests based
>> on workers' councils. They could not hold out,
> however, when more
>> troops retook the city and the rich ordered the
> massacre of 30,000
>> workers in bloody revenge.
>
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