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Nathaniel Gregory<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> was destroyed just like the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SovietUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SovietUnion</span></a> was. After the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Commune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commune</span></a> was destroyed, the press was quick to call <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> this "failed idea" even back then, pointing to the destruction of the Paris Commune &amp; the murder of the Communards to make their case.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RNC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoeBiden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimWalz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a></p>
The Dialectical Communist 🇵🇸🇾🇪<p>The Fall of The Paris Commune Summarized</p><p><a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paris</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>france</span></a> <a href="https://social.marxist.network/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a></p>
☭ 𝗖 𝗔 𝗧 ☭<p>If you want to get morbidly angry at the capitalist ruling class like I just did, read the 6th chapter of Karl Marx's "The Civil War in France": The Fall of Paris, as well as the whole thing since it's a really good book.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marxism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/classstruggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classstruggle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>france</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pariscommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pariscommune</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/karlmarx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>karlmarx</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/marx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marx</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anticapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anticapitalism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ch06.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">marxists.org/archive/marx/work</span><span class="invisible">s/1871/civil-war-france/ch06.htm</span></a></p>
MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDTTdWEYSAc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=fDTTdWEYSA</span><span class="invisible">c</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LaCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaCommune</span></a> 2000 par <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/PeterWatkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeterWatkins</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/filmcomplet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>filmcomplet</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ParisCommuneWatkinsFilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommuneWatkinsFilm</span></a></p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>The <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a>: A New History </p><p>"<a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/CarolynJEichner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarolynJEichner</span></a> discusses her book <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/TheParisCommuneABriefHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheParisCommuneABriefHistory</span></a></p><p>"The Commune stands as a critical and pivotal moment in 19th century history, as the linchpin between revolutionary pasts and futures, and as a crucible allowing glimpses of alternate possibilities."</p><p><a href="https://marxedproject.org/event/the-paris-commune-a-new-history/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">marxedproject.org/event/the-pa</span><span class="invisible">ris-commune-a-new-history/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/LaCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaCommune</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/CommuneDeParis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommuneDeParis</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/histFr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histFr</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paris</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/communardes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communardes</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/communards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communards</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/livres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>livres</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/18mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18mars</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/18mars1871" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18mars1871</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/18March1871" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18March1871</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/EnCeJour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnCeJour</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/CarolynEichner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarolynEichner</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today for Women’s History Month, we remember Louise Michel, born in Vroncourt, France in 1830. Michel was a leader of the Paris Commune. As a child, she always empathized with the downtrodden. At age 23, she became a school teacher. In her free time, she wrote poetry and took classes in physics, chemistry and law. Here’s one of her early poems:</p><p>I have seen criminals and whores<br>And spoken with them. Now I inquire<br>If you believe them made as now they are<br>To drag their rags in blood and mire<br>Preordained, an evil race?<br>You to whom all men are prey<br>Have made them what they are today.</p><p>In July, 1870, she was arrested her for the first time. She was helping cache arms to defend Strasberg against the Prussian army. The Prussians released her at the end of September, but arrested her again, two months later, for leading a demonstration. In January, 1871, the Prussians conquered Paris, but allowed the French to elect a new government, which they filled with monarchists. Two months later, the people overthrew that government in the Paris Commune. In her memoirs, she wrote the following about her state of mind during the commune: "In my mind I feel the soft darkness of a spring night. It is May 1871, and I see the red reflection of flames. It is Paris afire. That fire is a dawn." At the end of the Bloody Week, the authorities forced her to turn herself in by threatening to kill her mother. She was lucky to have survived. They executed 30,000 men, women and children.</p><p>They tried her in December, 1871 for trying to overthrow the government, arming citizens, forgery, attempted assassinations, and numerous other crimes. When asked if she had anything to say in her defense, she replied: "I do not wish to defend myself, I do not wish to be defended. . . I wished to oppose the invader from Versailles with a barrier of flames. I had no accomplices in this action. I acted on my own initiative. . . since it seems that any heart which beats for freedom has the right only to a lump of lead, I too claim my share. If you let me live, I shall never stop crying for revenge and l shall avenge my brothers. I have finished. If you are not cowards, kill me!"</p><p>They sentenced her to deportation for life and sent her to New Caldonia. On the boat ride there, in 1873, she met Natalie Lemel, who taught her about anarchism. After five years, they allowed her to start teaching again. She worked with the children of colonists and the indigenous people of New Caldonia. Her struggle against French colonialism and support for the indigenous people is remembered today in their local museum of anarchism.</p><p>In 1880, the French gave amnesty to commune prisoners and allowed her back into the country. Many of those prisoners could not find work and were starving. She helped set up soup kitchens to feed them and devoted herself to writing about strikes and worker protests. On Mach 9, 1883, she led a demonstration through Paris. During the march, starving workers looted bakeries and stole bread. They arrested Michel and sentenced her to six years solitary confinement.</p><p>When socialist Paul Lafargue visited her in prison, he seemed distressed by her living conditions. “My dear Lafargue,” she said. “There is no other parlor in this hotel where the bourgeois lodge me gratis. I'm not complaining. . .I‘ve found a happiness in prison that I never knew when I was free; I have time to study and I take advantage of it. When I was free, I had my classes: 150 students or more. It wasn’t enough for me to live on, since two thirds of them didn’t pay me. I had to give lessons in music, grammar, history, a little bit of everything, until ten or eleven o'clock in the evening, and when I went home I went to sleep exhausted, unable to do anything. At the time I would have given years of my life in order to have time to give over to study. . . . While waiting to re-conquer my freedom of action, my freedom to propagandize, I write. I wrote some children’s books. I teach them to think like citizens, like revolutionaries, while at the same time amusing them. In novels I realistically paint the miseries of life, and I try to breathe the love of the revolution into the hearts of men.”</p><p>Two years after being released, a would-be assassin shot her behind her ear. During the trial, she defended the would-be assassin, arguing that he had been misled by an evil society. She died on January 9, 1905, due in part to the bullet that remained lodged in her skull.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/louisemichel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>louisemichel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pariscommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pariscommune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/teacher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teacher</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 23, 1903: Jean-Baptiste Clement died. Clement was a socialist and Paris Communard, poet, singer and composer of the famous song, “The Time of Cherries.” He was one of the last on the barricades during the Commune. He escaped and fled to England. The French authorities condemned him to death, in absentia. They later granted him amnesty and he returned to France in 1879. He helped found the Revolutionary Socialist Workers Party in 1890. Paris has since named schools and a street after him.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolutionary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/singer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>singer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JeanBaptisteClement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeanBaptisteClement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/barricades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barricades</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/amnesty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amnesty</span></a></p>
skua<p>2/2</p><p>It didn't have to succeed.<br>Just not be taken over.</p><p>So what sort of history have you learnt?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WatTyler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WatTyler</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnam</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 10, 1898: Marxist playwright Bertolt Brecht was born. Brecht was a doctor, poet and playwright. He fled the Nazis only to be persecuted in the U.S. by HUAC during the Cold War. He is most well-known for his play, “The Three Penny Opera.” He also wrote “Mother Courage and Her Children” and “The Days of the Commune,” about the Paris Commune. Additionally, he wrote poetry and composed the lyrics to many of the songs performed in his plays, like “Mack the Knife” and “Alabama Song” (AKA Whiskey Bar). <a href="https://youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/6orDcL0zt34</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/huac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huac</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anticommunist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anticommunist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/witchhunt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>witchhunt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BertoltBrecht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BertoltBrecht</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marxist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marxist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>playwright</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 8, 1805: Louis-Auguste Blanqui was born. He was a French revolutionary and participant in the Paris Commune. Blanqui took an active role in most republican conspiracies of the early to mid-1800s, both in France, and in Italy with the Carbonari society, including the July Revolution of 1830. In 1840, the authorities condemned him to death for his role in a violent rebellion led by the Société des Saisons. However, they commuted it to life in prison and then ended up releasing him during the revolution of 1848. Needless to say, he promptly resumed his attacks. In 1849, they again imprisoned him, but he escaped and led two more armed uprisings. Just prior to the Paris Commune, they arrested him again. While in prison, the Communards elected him president of the commune. The Communards offered to release all of their prisoners if the government released Blanqui. In 1872, along with other leaders of the Commune, the authorities sentenced him to deportation. But because of poor health, they commuted his sentence to local imprisonment. He died in 1881.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/louisblanqui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>louisblanqui</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolutionary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a></p>
anubis2814Funny thing about how the <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=right" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>right</span></a> interpret <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=Marx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marx</span></a> as attacking <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=individuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>individuality</span></a> is that when Marx wrote this "individuality" got completely reframed in the 1980s under <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neoliberalism</span></a> . Prior to that, most people viewed individuality very differently especially in Marx's time and this modern version of <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=individualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>individualism</span></a> would be weird AF in his time. In fact Walden was written shortly after and what he described as solitude, was just living on the edge of the village by himself, and his mom came around and took care of him and he had visitors all the time fascinated that he was living "alone", almost like a freak show. It wasn't the solitude we think of remotely today, a social butterfly compared to many of us. In fact one of the reasons anarchist Catalonia and Ukraine as well as the <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=pariscommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pariscommune</span></a> thrived as much as they did is they lived in sustainable close knit <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a>, this was just normal. Meanwhile we have lost all ability to organize around sustainable community which is why the left can't organize its way out of a wet paper bag. More info on my solarpunkusa channel about sustainable community
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History January 14, 1895: The Knights of Labor (KOL) initiated the Brooklyn trolley strike over wages and safety (lasting until Feb. 28). It was the largest strike Brooklyn had ever seen. The bosses brought in scabs from Boston, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. The drivers cut the wires, surrounded trains and assaulted the scab drivers. 2 people died. On January 19, the mayor called out the National Guard and declared martial law. Militiamen, with fixed bayonets, battled workers in the streets. Sympathetic locals threw rocks and bottles at the militiamen. When a supporter tried to disarm a soldier and was subsequently stabbed, the crowds of supporters swelled into the thousands. One New York paper called it another Paris Commune. However, the KOL had been weakened by years of poor leadership, and by the witch hunt that followed the Haymarket Bombing, and its membership had dwindled to under 100,000. They hadn’t waged a successful strike in years. In the end, the militia effectively quashed the strike and things returned to business as usual without the workers winning any of their demands.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/brooklyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brooklyn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trolley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trolley</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/knightsoflabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knightsoflabor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/martiallaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>martiallaw</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haymarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haymarket</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wages</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scabs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/militia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>militia</span></a></p>
Paxton Orglot<p>Remembering Louise Michel: “Now I have only the revolution left”</p><p><a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/09/remembering-louise-michel-now-i-have-only-the-revolution-left/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/09/</span><span class="invisible">remembering-louise-michel-now-i-have-only-the-revolution-left/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LouiseMichel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LouiseMichel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>Remembering Louise Michel Louise who passed away in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Marseille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marseille</span></a> on January 9, 1905. 100,000 mourners attended her funeral. Thousands more mourned her death throughout Europe. Today, there are streets and parks in France that are named for her.<br><a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/09/remembering-louise-michel-now-i-have-only-the-revolution-left/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/09/</span><span class="invisible">remembering-louise-michel-now-i-have-only-the-revolution-left/</span></a></p><p>Louise Michel was born twice—first as a person, on May 29, 1830, and again as a myth, in 1871, in the context of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pariscommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pariscommune</span></a> <br><a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2019/03/21/images-and-mirages-of-the-paris-commune-and-the-petroleuses/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">freedomnews.org.uk/2019/03/21/</span><span class="invisible">images-and-mirages-of-the-paris-commune-and-the-petroleuses/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/louiseMichel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>louiseMichel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workingclasshistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclasshistory</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History October 21, 1894: French anarchists incited a revolt on the penal colony of Île Saint-Joseph, in the Salvation Islands of French Guiana, which included the infamous Devil’s Island. The revolt was a response to the guards killing an anarchist prisoner. The uprising was quickly put down, with the guards slaughtering several anarchists, and torturing many more, some of whom later died from their wounds. Captain Alfred Dreyfus was held there (1895-98) after his wrongful, antisemitic conviction for treason. Charles Delescluze, libertarian socialist and future leader of the Paris Commune, was sent there in 1853. Clément Duval, a member of the Panther of Batignolles anarchist gang of robbers, spent 14 years on Devil’s Island, making 20 escape attempts. In 1901, he succeeded and fled to New York, where lived until his death at the age of 85. The first political prisoners brought to Guiana were Jacobins, in 1794. Numerous slave rebellions also occurred in the colony, until slavery was finally abolished, in the wake of the 1848 French Revolution. The novel and film “Papillon” takes place there, as does Joseph Conrad's short story “An Anarchist” (1906). Delescluze, who was killed on the barricades during the Commune, wrote an account of his imprisonment in Guiana, “De Paris à Cayenne, Journal d'un transporté.” And Duval wrote about it in his 1929 memoir, “Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony.” Guiana is the only continental South American territory to remain a European colony into the 21st century.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uprising</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pariscommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pariscommune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/devilsisland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devilsisland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/guiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guiana</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/papillon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>papillon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memoir</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History October 20, 1895: Anarcho-syndicalist writer Gaston Leval was born in France. He was the son of a French Communard. He escaped to Spain in 1915 to avoid conscription during WWI. Then left for Argentina during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera where he lived from 1923 to 1936. He returned to Spain and became a militant fighter in the war against the fascists, and where he documented the revolution and the urban and rural anarchist collectives in his numerous articles and books.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gastonleval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gastonleval</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>france</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pariscommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pariscommune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History October 18, 1843: Italian anarchist Amilcare Cipriani was born. At age 15, he fought with Garabaldi in Italy’s second war of independence. 1867, he joined the First International. He also defended the barricades during the Paris Commune. He was re-elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies eight times, but never was permitted to serve because he refused to swear allegiance to the king. Cipriani was so well-respected in Italy that Mussolini’s parents gave him the middle name of Amilcare. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cipriani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cipriani</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>italy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/garabaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garabaldi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mussolini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mussolini</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pariscommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pariscommune</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History October 5, 1839: Eugène Varlin was born. He was an internationalist anarchist and elected member of the Paris Commune of 1871. Born into a poor, peasant family, he went on to become a bookbinder and a union organizer. He helped lead the very first French bookbinders strike, in 1864. He participated in several insurrections prior to 1871, as well as the storming of the Vendôme place, at the beginning of the Paris Commune. When the Commune was finally suppressed, Varlin was captured and executed.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paris</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/commune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eug%C3%A8nevarlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugènevarlin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@oldbookillustrations" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>oldbookillustrations</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://ricochet.media/international/when-the-nobodies-dared-to-govern-remembering-the-paris-commune/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ricochet.media/international/w</span><span class="invisible">hen-the-nobodies-dared-to-govern-remembering-the-paris-commune/</span></a></p><p>1871 <br><a href="https://macommunedeparis.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">macommunedeparis.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>1961 <br>The Passerelle de la Fraternité includes a plaque in memory of the unknown number of victims of the 1961 massacre.<br>John Perivolaris (Flickr CC) / Lämpel (CC BY-SA 3.0)</p><p>More about October 1961 repression <br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_ma</span><span class="invisible">ssacre_of_1961</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> 1871</p>
Hidden Gems<p>Charles Dauvois’ haunting portrayal of Saint-Cloud's devastation during the Paris Commune captures raw emotion and historical depth. One can almost hear the echoes of the past. What stories do you think these ruins could tell? <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ParisCommune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisCommune</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rijksmuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rijksmuseum</span></a><br><a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-F-F09361" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP</span><span class="invisible">-F-F09361</span></a></p>