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