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racefortheironthrone · 1 year

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Do you believe the Paris Commune could have succeeded in fully capturing power in France if it had pursued a different policy towards the Versailles? A friend of mine wrote a biography on Blanqui and he has argued to me that if Blanqui had evaded capture by the police before the rise of the commune, he could have plausibly led it to victory. Because to him the key reasons for the communes failure was its headlessness. It spent the initial weeks after taking power not sure of what to do, and that gave the Thiers time to reorganize its forces for an assault on Paris. He argues that Blanqui had the authority that he could have led the national guard to pursue the government while it was still shattered and give it the killing blow.

He's a big Jacobins fanboy though so I think he might just be a bit too persuaded by the whole "Jacobin regime 2: what did you say about me being Robespierre repeated as farce" of it all.

I'm less sure that Blanqui necessarily would have been the man of the hour, the dude had a lot of downsides as well as his upsides. (I'm more of a Louis Blanc man myself.)

But in general, I'm a bit less sanguine about the chances of the Paris Commune: at most, if they had successfully destroyed the government at Versailles, I think that would have just bought them a bit of time until a new government reformed somewhere else in France that would call in a much larger and better armed French Army to crush them.

The basic problem that the Paris Commune faced was that the French left's support was really concentrated in Paris and that, out in the rest of France, moderate republicanism was kind of the best you could hope for, and they were locked in a life-or-death struggle with the Orleanists, the Bourbonists, and the Bonapartists which would dominate much of the Third Republic.

The Left's fatal weakness in the French provinces wouldn't really be solved until after the crushing of the Paris Commune. Ironically, it was the revolutionary Marxist French Workers Party (POF) that led the charge, in part because they viewed organizational strength for the forthcoming revolution as more important than the immediate demands of bourgeois electoral politics. By the late 1880s, the POF had managed to get a foothold going in the Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Loire and Allier provinces, but things wouldn't really change until...

...the internal political implosion of their electorally-minded reformist rivals (the Possibilist Federation of the Socialist Workers of France). With a whole bunch of socialist organizers and voters out there with no home, the POF launched a major recruitment drive in 1890 and 1891 centered around May Day and the eight hour day, sending speakers and organizers out to provincial centers to agitate, propagandize, and above all, recruit. From an incredibly small base of only 2,000 members in 1889, the POF suddenly had 10,000 by 1893 - and equally importantly, it had a modern, organized party structure fully stolen from the German SPD.

This party organization in turn began to organize the provinces and develop a rural program that focused on nationalization of the railroads and the canals (which the farmers really liked, because they hated the railroads and canals as much as American populists did) and de-emphasized the immediate collectivization of land (which scared the hell out of the farmers). These campaigns bore results: in 1889, the POF had won only 167,000 votes (2%) and 13 seats in the Chamber of Deputies; by 1893, they were up to 400,000 votes (5.4%) and 41 seats; by 1898, they were up to 786,000 votes (9.7%) and 55 seats.

(Then again, there's a whole argument that the "modernization" of the French countryside in the 1880s/1890s rendered the rural voter more likely to support socialist parties, but that's sort of a chicken-and-egg thing.)

#history #french history #the french left #the paris commune

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barbiebabalon · 3 months

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The Artist In His Political Study Group

#ai artist #ai art #ai generation #the joys of every day life #anarchism #the paris commune

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invizigothx · 2 years

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"At the final hour, the Commune’s courage will redeem it, and it will be forgiven for its qualms, and for the hesitations in its profound honesty.

Such generous qualms won’t be found in the battles to come, for with each defeat, the masses are bled out like beasts in a slaughterhouse. What will be found, instead, is unyielding duty."

#translation wip #la commune #louise michel #the paris commune #this project is going to take much longer than i thought it would but i'm a bit hopeful that people will actually want to read it #if only bc LM goes hard af

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teachanarchy · 2 months

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This Day in Anarchist History: The Paris Commune

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#the paris commune #france #world history #revolt #feudalism #Youtube

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harmoonix · 7 months

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🐞A love journey in your birth chart

🐞 • Astro Observations • 🐞

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(Synastry/Composite and Natal Chart observation)

🐞 (Composite/Synastry observations) 🐞

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🐞 - Having 8th house synastry with your partner can indicate that you and they are very intimate with eachother.

🐞 - Venus/Sun/Mercury in the 7th house in the composite chart indicate you 2 can get along good and the relationship is healthy (Composite and Synastry chart are for couples)

🐞 - Pluto in the 7th house in the composite chart can indicate that relationships with that specific person can be transformative for both of you

🐞 - Taurus/Libra/Scorpio/ Leo ascendant in the composite chart, you look great together as a couple, very romantic and full of love

🐞 - Having 6th/10th house placements in your dynasty chart indicates a strong fundamental relationship, loyal and serious partners

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🐞 - Capricorn Venus/Capricorn 7th house in composite chart can show that both of you look for a serious relationship

🐞 - Juno in the 9th house/Juno in Sagittarius in composite chart can indicate that you may travel together or just going together in a lot of places

🐞 - Juno/Venus in the 12th house in synastry can mean that you may have a karmic bound with eachother

🐞 - Jupiter in the 8th house in synastry chart can indicate that you may be spoiled by them either they by you (spoiled with anything)

🐞 - Mars/Venus/Neptune in the 8th house in composite chart = Breaking bed stages, very intense and intimate and very hot

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🐞 - Ascendant - Mercury aspects in composite chart you can communicate everything with them, you feel safe to talk with them about everything

🐞 - Cancer Ascendant in your composite chart can indicate a nurturing relationship where both of you take care of eachother

🐞 - Having Placements in the 5th house in synastry chart indicates you really like to be eachothers company a lot. You may stay together a lot

🐞- Moon in Scorpio/Capricorn/Aquarius/Virgo in composite chart can indicate problems with having a hard time to tell your feelings to your partner or sometimes even trust isuses

🐞 - Jupiter - Juno harmonious aspects in the composite chart have a really great luck in relationships and with their partners (really good aspects in composite chart)

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🐈‍⬛🐞 - Pluto - Venus aspects love really hard, in a breakup stage is really hard for them to let the person they love to go

🐞🐈‍⬛ - Capricorn/Leo/Aquarius in the 7th house shows that you may want someone who can be loyal in a relationship and loyal to you

🐞🐈‍⬛ - Neptune in the 7th house/7th house in Pisces can end up idolize their partners a lot, like for them their partners might be their entire world

🐈‍⬛🐞 - Virgo Moons/Venus/Mars can end up teaching their partners things, like being the teacher and student kind of thing?. Yes they can do that

🐞🐈‍⬛ - Gemini/Sagittarius/Leo/Scorpio Venus/Mercury might be really flirty in chatty in their relationship. One thing is for sure with them. They literally love to make jokes about everything

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🐞🐈‍⬛ - Cancer/Libra/Pisces Moons may be the ones who fall in love the first but you can end up loving them way more. Something like they fell for you first but you fell harder for them

🐈‍⬛🐞 - Juno/Venus in Aquarius can end up crushing for their friends or vice versa (sometimes can even mean that you may have crushes you don't know about)

🐈‍⬛🐞 - Taurus Moons/Mercury/Venus may have the most charming voices, people can first fall in love with their voices before everything

🐞🐈‍⬛ - Juno aspecting Neptune can create an spiritual bounding with their partners, and thus can also indicate that you may feel everything in the same way

🐞🐈‍⬛ - Juno aspecting Saturn/Pluto can sometimes be too overprotective over their partners, and omg they can get so jealous for you

🐈‍⬛🐞 - Juno sextile/trine/conjunct Mars. Intensity level 1000%, Probably seeking for someone dominant and fierce in their lives

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🐞🐈‍⬛ - Sun/Moon in the 4th house, your family will be the most important for you ever. The family you wanna create and your own family will be big priorities in your life

🐞🐈‍⬛ - Venus/Juno in the 6th/8th or 10th house can end up working together in the same place, especially in the 10th house is giving career relationship

🐈‍⬛🐞 - For Aries Venus/Juno/Mars their partners are their soft spot 100%. It's so cute but in a way it can aslo be challenging since they can be attached to you too hard

🐞 - People with North Node in the 7th house/North Node in Libra are the people who really seek for a relationship. They can get sad or just in a depressed state if they are single

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🗼 Hello everybodyyyy. I hope everyone reading my notes has a good day full of blessings and new beginnings to start 🗼 a new day a new chapter opens for us 🐞

🐞 Have a miraculous day for everyone 🐞

- Harm🐞🐞nix

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marrijaa · 3 months

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Last days in Paris🤍

#sims 4 #sims 4 cc #ts4 #ts4 simblr #sims #my sims #showyoursims #aesthetic #the sims #sims 4 screenshots #simblr #the sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #ts4 cc #ts4 gameplay #the sims community #the sims cc #flynn #paris*

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justdavina · 6 months

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Adorable Transgender Woman wearing a magnificent outfit, I LOVE everything about what she's wearing! Viva La Paris!

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crystaldreamcarnivals · 1 month

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Kira Imai for Angelic Pretty, 2006 ♡

#angelic pretty #angelic pretty paris #old school lolita #sweet lolita #web archive #egl community #kira imai #illustration

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snezka-049 · 20 days

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I love Paris

HE DRINKS MY ENERGY OMAGA

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numberonevenicebitch · 2 months

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cunts

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nuzzle · 1 month

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haul of a girl that can't pick a substyle

my first brand swimsuit and an usakumya necklace i was very excited about finding!!

i was missing several of the early volumes of GLB and was able to fill in the gaps with a few of those. i've been interested in researching the history of the fashion recently so i'm constantly hunting for old magazines! i've added GLB volumes 1-4 & 6 & 49--as well as "Frill" volume 1 and the "Maison Gothic & Lolita Style" book to my media collection.

a metamorphose Alice OP (2000) that i got on auction!! the double sleeves and center buttons down to the bottom are my favorite. it didn't come with the apron, but i was lucky enough that the one from a different Alice OP, also from the year 2000... was on auction on a different platform at the same time. i bought them separately intending to pair them together! i quite prefer the style of this rounder edged apron rather than the more squared top one it's meant to go with.

this is actually the dress that made me realize the Alice OP Set on lolibrary has a long version (similar to the maid OP from 2003 mini & long or the nun style OP mini & long)--i'll have to remind myself to submit a correction for the current OP to indicate the mini variation, and to submit a new entry for the long length one if i can manage to find more information... though i had no idea of its existence until recently! from an old LM sales listing, i found that the mini length is around 88 cm, whereas this one is 125 cm. i severely underestimated the length of this and it's down to my ankles, but i suppose it'll be my first long dress ^_^

#also i got a black x red usakumya with paris embroidery but i wanna retake an usa family photo for that occasion #and some doll stuff.. but i will reserve that for a bjd post #metamorphose temps de fille #baby the stars shine bright #btssb #angelic pretty #gothic and lolita bible #gothic & lolita bible #frill magazine #old school lolita #sweet lolita #lolita fashion #egl #egl fashion #egl community #usakumya

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artfilmaesthetics · 11 months

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‘Juliet in Paris’ (1967) dir. Claude Miller

#Juliet in Paris #film #films #movies #cinema #film frames #cinematography #film stills #cinephile #film lovers #film community #screencaps #french film #juliet dans Paris

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earlgrey24 · 25 days

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Bijoux à la guillotine

A (literal) gem of a find in Musée Carnavalet: French Revolution themed earrings, head of king and queen included!

Quite morbid, but perhaps delightfully so. They were made about 100 years after the revolution was over, but still!

#frev #french revolution #frev community #frev memes #paris trip #marie antoinette #louis xvi #french history #1700s #history memes #musée carnavalet #paris #historical artifacts #jewellery #hall of fame

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cosmonautroger · 3 months

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Led Zeppelin, Communication Breakdown, Paris, 1969

#Led Zeppelin #Communication Breakdown #Paris #1969

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marrijaa · 3 months

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Baylee in episode "Emily in Paris"🗼🤍 I am using phenomenal mod by @lijoue "Paris World Mod" which turns Britechester into Paris😍 This stunning lot is by @bbygyal123 "La Tour Eiffel" P.S. This will be a mini-series about Baylee's vacation in Paris

#sims 4 #sims 4 cc #ts4 #ts4 simblr #sims #showyoursims #my sims #aesthetic #ts4 custom content #ts4 gameplay #ts4cc #sims 4 community #sims 4 poses #paris*

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lichdolly · 10 months

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BABY, the Stars Shine Bright - Cul de Paris JSK (2001)

#baby the stars shine bright #btssb #sweet lolita #gothic lolita #classic lolita #old school lolita #kawaii fashion #egl fashion #egl #elegant gothic lolita #egl community #harajuku fashion #alt fashion #jfashion #lolita fashion #lolita community #velveteen dreams #cul de paris jsk #my post tag

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