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    alanjjohnstone
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    In case it was missed by anyone, a Guardian article on the event

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/07/vive-la-commune-the-working-class-insurrection-that-shook-the-world

    Mathilde Larrère, a historian specialising in the radical movements of 19th-century France.

    The communist interpretation of 1871 was a very partial one,” she says. “The communards were not the working class of Marxist theory and the Commune was not a proto-soviet of industrial workers and soldiers. These people were the successors of the sans-culottes of 1789 – artisans, small businessmen and producers. They wanted a better democracy and a more social republic.”

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    alanjjohnstone
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    Ooops..5th of March was also the 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth which we were amiss in commemorating

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