The paris communards were French nationalists and Republicans for the most part. The idea that they were anarchists is a weird thing that's just stuck.
I'd recommend reading "voices of the paris commune" for more of what the communards actually believed
I could have sworn either Lenin or Marx wrote something about how their ideological background was heavily based on Proudhon and some earlier utopian socialists.
The most important thing is that their ideology didn't really matter because they formed an entirely new thing that wasn't based on whatever ideology they subscribed to. Their primitive DotP was entirely a product of the circumstances of their revolution and its class character.
A fantastic example of left unity and the fact that ideological differences tend to fade away in revolutionary moments as the working class realizes its own liberation.
The Paris workers were also ideologically anarchist when they created the first practical example of a DotP.
The paris communards were French nationalists and Republicans for the most part. The idea that they were anarchists is a weird thing that's just stuck.
I'd recommend reading "voices of the paris commune" for more of what the communards actually believed
I could have sworn either Lenin or Marx wrote something about how their ideological background was heavily based on Proudhon and some earlier utopian socialists.
The most important thing is that their ideology didn't really matter because they formed an entirely new thing that wasn't based on whatever ideology they subscribed to. Their primitive DotP was entirely a product of the circumstances of their revolution and its class character.
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A fantastic example of left unity and the fact that ideological differences tend to fade away in revolutionary moments as the working class realizes its own liberation.