anarchism, red in tooth and flag
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We experimented with every form of human social organization, from the military dictatorship of Sparta, to the centralized bureaucracy of China, to the open democracy of Athens, to the chaotic anarchism of the Paris Commune. At each step along the way, we passed these lessons along, in a unbroken chain, to the generations that followed.
Please do not call the Paris Commune “anarchy”.
It was government, and a communist government at that.
The very first sententence of the Wikipedia article:
The Paris Commune (French: La Commune de Paris) was a government
On to my assertion that they were communists:
(a) they called themselves a “commune”.
(b)
The commune adopted … the socialist red flag…
the Council … reached consensus on certain policies that tended towards a progressive … remission of rents owed … granting of pensions to the unmarried companions and children of National Guards … the free return, by … pawnshops, of all workmen’s tools and household items valued up to 20 francs … abolition of interest … the right of employees to take over and run an enterprise…
The decree … made all church property public property…
the composition of the Commune as a whole was much more revolutionist… The Paris Commune has been celebrated by Anarchist and Marxist socialists continuously since then, partly due to the variety of tendencies, the high degree of workers’ control…
