The Paris Commune: Anarchy in the French Republic

I dream about french police and army to have courage doing the same with rioters during today brutal revolt of minorities in Paris and other cities. Like in 1871, this is the only chance to save France and Europe before they destroy few thousands years of our continent history and culture.

Where were you in 1871 ??

Brilliant Episode.

1971 lol.

Your fast-talking vernacular-laced commentary demands full concentration. Sneaky way of building retention.
Still, you crammed a lot of history into a quick-paced, omg-packed narrative. Elucidating.

This channel is anti comunist bullshit

Europe future is weak we work hard for another people a lot of taxes to the gouverment it's time for anarchist

Violent back to west europe belgium france and spain the future is troubles we fights in the streets of Brussels Paris and many other city´s europe is weak

As a direct descendant of Patric de MacMahon, I am fascinated with this French history. My grandfather Martin V. McMahon US Army , was presented with one of President MacMahon's engraved battle swords in Rouen France, 1918. I still have it to this day.

This is just another example (including the current Ukraine Russian violence) of why America should never again send American soldiers into the slaughter pen, that has been going on in Europe for over 1000 years!

Communards? More like Commutards.

All revolutions are violent. Violence is not wrong if it is used against a ruling class. To dismantle a system of oppression you must crush those who built/maintain it into the dirt. The USA failing to execute those responsible for the formation of the confederacy is a good example of how you must destroy those who seek to oppress. Taking power away from them is not enough to truly cure a society of the cancer that is oppression and Bigotry.

Wow there's so many historical innacuracies within a couple minutes that I don't even know where to start!

Yes, I worked for TWA in Paris during that time and it was an incredible scene in 1968. Our office on the Champs Elysees had to be guarded, as were many other US businesses. It was common to see tourists buying some of the cobblestones (paves) as souvenirs.

This guy is bougie af

Fortunately workers learned the lessons of the commune and they will never repeat these again in the future. Now we know. This is a classic western video that tries to water down the impact of the commune. There is an ongoing fight between Democracy and Authoritarianism and that was the case for the commune as well. The commune proved that in order to have democracy you need to be able to carry over the decision being made. Anarchism is not a system of government but a private philosophical stance and that is why anarchists never managed to make a successful revolution.

the Commune still lives hearts of the all those who are oppressed.

& then the Communards went on to make some good 80s disco tunes.

General MacMahon: DEATH IS A PREFERABLE ALTERNATIVE TO COMMUNISM!

Of course a French surrender was inevitable.

The background music is a little too loud, just my opinion. I want to hear Simon.

The French commune was completely rediculous

The biggest enemy of anarchists is reality

The communal cause more destruction than german bombardment.

1971?

Moral of the video: Adolphe Thiers is a half-eaten banana.

That’s a good look. After everything that just happened in Paris, he moves the capital to Versailles. Not the brightest star in the sky.

Oh it's Whistler is it. No thanks then.

It was leftist but not communist. The commune was made up of various factions. The Parisians wanted to be seen as legit by the French government but instead, the government took back Paris. The October revolution sees the Paris Commune as a predecessor but it just wasn't true. I think Karl Marx as well wrote that if they had enough time & centralized the banks & stuff communism would've succeeded. This justified communism even more. The real enemy of the Parisians is the rest of France made up of mostly monarchists. Every time a new republic is established, the rest of France except Paris chose monarchism. The leading up to this event was the Prussian invasion of the capital. The government left to assimilate an army to take back Paris, the rich also left. This meant that jobs weren't there anymore except the national guard. After the war was over the French government paid the Prussians. Then the government began to take away the Parisian cannons & began to dissolve the national guard. The Parisian cannons were paid for by the Parisian people to fight the war, so this angered the people. Dissolving the national guard meant that Parisians would lose their one job. So, they began revolting. Establishing a Parisian government made up of various leftists, monarchists, anarchists & whatnot. Before this Paris was directly under the main French Government. But most of them still wanted to be part of France. The French government wasn't having it and attacked & took Paris back. Paris would've been better left off not being part of France. I think that autonomy/separatism could've been a good solution. But the Parisians were not in a position to make that happen anyway.

Yeah… Lenin and CHAZ don’t exactly make me a supporter of the commune.

If monarch had not fought Prussians maybe it would've never happened

I was almost 1when the committee was formed in 1971.

Great video but I don't think it's true that women could vote in the commune. Is there a definitive record on that?

May I just say THANK YOU for the background on the Franco-Prussian War! I knew that it had happened (from reading the stories of Guy de Maupassant, some of which took place during or just after said war,) but this REALLY puts it into perspective!!! THANK YOU!!!

Great vid!
Notice the initial acts of french revolutions is to raise the status of women and get everyone fed, etc...... For America's leaders the destruction of the environment isn't something they can lead us into correcting, but instead its mostly a 'security risk" requiring defense planning. Their not planning electric cars and solar roofs to replace coal and cars, but they have issued 25 new fossil fuel leases and new "Pentagon studies". Biden is no lunatic, but the system he thinks he'll reform is crazy to the bone.

Prime example of why Marxism Leninism is better than anarchism

Nothing was studied more by the Marxists and Social Democrats than the Commune. Lenin adopted the moral that Marx took from it - that it's a mistake to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat on existing institutions; you must first smash the existing institutions (government, society, religion, economy, etc.) and then erect a new edifice. Unfortunately for so many millions of people throughout the past 104 years, Lenin and the Bolsheviks were given the opportunity to try their ideas out in real time.

I don't think these "anarchists" understand what anarchy means.

'Committee of public safety'...hardly 'safe' for those people it executed :)

Picked up a book authored by Sophocles, titled "The Three Theban Plays". The front cover has a painting by Dore titled "The Enigma", inspired by the Paris Commune with references of Oedipus and the Sphinx.

Patrice de MacMahon 🇫🇷 💪

Thank you Adolphe Tiers for getting rid of them !

This is also why the rest of us French people hate Parisians.

The yellow vests have nothing to do with Paris Commune, this is just bullshit ! The Yellow Vests have nothing to do with the Paris Commune. You are using the same tactics as the French media who labelled the Yellow Vests as a « far-right movement » thus creating division among them. Many YV don’t want anything to do with communism or anarchism.

A lot of understandable mistakes regarding the time of the video, to make it short, i would say that for the versaillais, the franco-prussian war was excellent opportunity to stop rebellious ideas from the communard, which wanted better work and living condition, which was profoundly unancceptable for the Versaillais which represented mostly the upper class, (good old class struggle). So seeing the risk of a revolution growing bigger and bigger, the army being controlled by the Versaillais letthe germans established the siege of Paris. I will stop there, there is much much more to say, but if you are a french speaker, i can only and higly recommand you the 6 hours long video from Henri guillemin, an historian, who tell you the story with many writted documents as letters, texts from personnal diaries from both Versaillais and Communards and from neutral party too.