Sturday, March 15, 1980 THE (LITAT Page The Paris Commune and the Proletarian Revolution the Franco German War was tho By MAURICE SPECTOR aroge among the political emigrants. The bloody prelude of the great world holoanarchist opposition of Bakunin based on caust. The French Commune was the pendent proletarian struggle for power, and suming the offensive, the Commune waited the Latin countries of gmall industry, lightning Iike prophecy the prolet.
Versailles the armed camp of the bourgeois passively while the Versailles counter rev brought about a split. But the real resarlun world revolution.
coalition supported by Bismark who retur olution mobilized and organized its forces. Son for the decline of the International D. Trotsky nod 100, 000 French prisoners to help Thiers Thiers and the rest of the bourgeois exwas the same as for the fall of the Comcrush the Commune. The proletarians of ecutive and bureaucrats were allowed to Out of the last of the great national mune the fact that capitalism had not number of other cities (Marsellles, Lyons, ally out of Paris under the very noses of as yet exhausted its latent poselbilities.
struggles of western bourgeoisie for etc. also proclaimed Communes but were the National Guard. The agents the Stalin had not yet been invented and in capitalist state unification sprang the first smashed by the bourgeoisie before they National Assembly were allowed to carry the view of Marx, the social revolution attempt of the modern working class to could render assistance to Paris, which on their work of sabotage and conspiracy conquer political power.
could be proclaimed, but not solved, within remained isolated.
from within the walls of Parls. The the limits of national boundaries. Neither Regardless of Bismark diplomatic Commune suffered from the precipitate machinations and provocations, the The Proletariat Struggles for Power on the continent nor in Great Britain was transfer of power from the hands of the Franco Prussian struggle of 1870 was for The Commune lasted for seventy two the level of economic development ripe for Germany a war of national self defence. days, from March 18 to May 20, 1871. The Central Committee of the Guard to the the finish of capitalist production. The BrlThe task of national unification which the Central Committee of the National Guard, Council, and then from the lingering ditish manufacturers dominating the world vision of authority between them. The middle and working classes had failed to according to its pledge, proceeded to the market, took advantage of the industrial remilitary work was in a state of confusion.
solve in 1848 by revolutionary democratic communal elections on March 26 and vival to bribe their labor aristocracy, and While the bourgeoisie organized its calmeans, history passed on to Bismark to transferred its authority to the elected the desertion of British labor was another umpy of the Commune on an international achieve by means of Blood and Iron. The council. These democratic elections on heavy blow to the International, empire of Napoleon III, Marx considered the basis of universal sufrage have rescale, the Commune did almost nothing to counteract this poisonous propaganda by The Lossons of the Commune the only possible form of government folced the heart of Kautsky. But the popularizing its own true aims. Dissenin the epoch in which the bourgeoisie Commune is great despite and not because The center of gravity of the Internasion and disunion prevailed. The Comhas already lost the power of governing of its infirmitles. Its democratic forms tional labor movement, as Marx had fore mittee Public Saftey that was estabthe people while the working class has cannot obscure its real import as an anseen, now passed to Germany, which ticipation of the dictatorship of the proished, lacked a realization of its true not yet acquired it. The war, he preexperienced its era of great industrial erfunction as an extraordinary commission dicted, would ring the death kaell of letartat. In that penetrating study of pansion. In the opoch of the Second Interto protect the revolution.
the Second Empire; it will end as it began the Commune called the Civil War in national and capitalist imperialism, there. in a parody. The Httle Napoleon could France. Marx writes with unerring genThe Triomph of the Bourgeoisle could be no more talk of a premature revoobly maintain his regime on the basis of Ius that the Commune was essentially The result was that the initiative lution, wrote Kautsky. It was a period the continued feudal particularism and the government of the working class the passed over into the hands of the bour of the preparation of the proletariat. But dismemberment of Germany.
result of the struggle of the producing reolate, who now had preponderance of it the First International disappeared in the against the appropriating class; it was the forces. Thiers understood very well what The course of the war gwiftly revealed glory of the Paris Commune, the Second the entire rotteness of the Empire. The political form discovered wt last under the Commune signified and he suffered no crashed on the shameful betrayal of the French armies which labor could work out its economic democratic and humanitarian illusions social democracy.
were outgeneralled and outnumbered; the military demoralization emancipation.
in clrcumventing its destruction. The Ver. The Lessons of the Commune, Its 08was the measure of the general state of This was borne out in his view both Balllese entered Paris on May 21st and sence as a form of the dictatorably of the eight days of fighting and white terror proletarlat, and the necessary role of the political decay. Sedan was the logical cul by the structure of the Commune and the mination of a serios of disastrous advenrevolutionary party as organizer of victory, nature of its practical program of legisfollowed. Vae victis! In the course of tures in the Crimea, in Italy and Mexico. lation The Commune was the direct anthat bloody week 30, 000 communards wero only becamo the practical politics of the On September 4th, the French bour tithesis of the Empire.
working class again with the development It was to have massacred and tens of thousands of others were deported or Incarcerated. Altogether of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917.
geoisie bastened to proclaim the Third Re been not a parliamentary but a working public and to set up a Government of It was Lenin who brought into brilliant recorporation, legislative and executive at the Parislan proletariat was bled white fence. The National tered no same time.
the ould not The ComIsinlet the teachings that Marx had derived of a generation of its elte.
on ita second phase, the four months slege terpreted as the resurrection of the medimune was crushed. France was made safe from the Commune and he made them tho of Paris. It now ceased to be a war of aeval communes The communal constifor the Third Republic, that monument material for epoch making theses in the national defence for the Germans, a war tution would have brought the rural proto the fraud of bourgeois democracy, that struggle against the Provisional Governaot against the French people but the ducers (peasantry) under the intellectual regi:ae of the Panama scandals, of Milleran ment and menshevlam. One of the foremost French emperor. and bad deflaltely be leadership of the towns. The unity of the dism, of the Dreytus atrair, of Poincaire of theso lessons ho applied was that The como tbo fuotrument of aggression, the working class cannot almply lay hold of nation was to be organized by means of and the alliance with the Tsar, of the Prussian military camarilla whom Marx, the communal structure. The standing press subsidized by the Tsar minister, the ready made state machinery and wield on behall of the International, unre. army and the police were abolished and Istolsky, of the murder of Jaures, ot it for its own purposes. The slogan Al servedly denounced, warning that the anPower to the Soviets. is the resurrection of their place taken by the people in arms.
Clemenceau and the Treaty of Versailles.
neration of Alsace Lorraine would drive blow was struck at the clorical power The fall of the Commune spelled the the Paris Commune on a gigantic scale, Paris France into the arms of Prussia.
The by the separation of church and state and end of the first international also. in the opoch of the Anal struggle between The capitulated on January 28, 1871.
tho world proletartat and the imperialist French government hounded the Internathe expropriation of church property.
National Assembly with its reactionary The fudicial functionaries lost their sham tionalists out of France. Bitter dissension bourgeoiste.
monarchist majority authorised Thiers to independence and were to chosen by conclude peace with Bismark by the cos popular mandate. further blow was mon ot Alsace Lorraine and the agree Almed at the bureaucracy by setting the ment to an iademalty of five billion franca.
maximum pay at 6, 000 francs year and tere introducing the right of re call. The By ROBERT CRUDEX the hil billies at 60 cents an hout.
The War and the Misery of the Workers schools wore thrown open to popular ed. Yeah, and how long will it last? Is the As usual, the masses had borne the DETROIT LAKO all other industries, ucation. Night work was abolished in the auto industry is quietly moving south.
cynical question which never produces a brunt of the guttering and calamity of war; the bakeries; workshops that had been this peace now provoked their deepest reThis has been brought to light within the quite satisfactory reply.
closed down were seized, with the aim of Nevertheless, thousands of southerner past week.
sentment as savoring of national betrayal.
transferring them to groups of cooperative have left the city. Pendless and destitute While the big bourgeoisie, the landlords, The Kelsey Wheel Co. makers of Ford workers.
they have gone away, bitter, cynical. Perthe speculators and manufacturers had enwheels, have reopened their Memphis, hapa tho auto masters may yet meet their rohod themselves, the petty bourgeois ar. Tho Shortcomings of the Commune Tenn. plant and are now planning exWaterloo, not in world famed Detroit, but ns, pensants and shop keepers had been But the Commune was not destined tensive development. They are putting out in the unknown towns of the sweated south.
tuined and the worker suttered from wide to carry out its program. For a success Ford wheels more cheaply than Ford him. spread unemployment. The bour cols goy ful social rev east two soll. As a re who plant at SACCO VANZETTI CASE REOPENED IN ornment was aware of th:. nent among pensible conditions are necessary, the sufHamilton, Ohio is being shut down.
BOSTON the people and proceeded to re establish ficient development of the forces of pro Southern workers in the Detroit Kelsey BOSTON. FP) The best people in law and order by characteristle means. duction and the preparation of the pro plants are bolng offered Jobs back home Boston are mortally affronted by a full It pitilessly cancelled the moratorium on letariat. Unfortunately, both of these at fair wages but they fear that after page advertisement in their morning papers rents and other debts, thereby increasing necessary pre requisites were lacking, month or two their wages will be slashed asking, la type two laches high, Were Sacca the wholesale misery of the masses: but To take the latter Arst. The great to 35 40 cents per hour. That is the pretalafortune of the Commune was the aband Vanzetti Innocent or Guilty. their cup was full to overflowing, when Thle valling rate there at present. The Feder question solved by Pres. Lowell of Hare Thlers attempted to disarm the National gence of a centralized single willed revo ated Press was warned, however, not to vard, former Gov. Fuller and other leads Guard, that 18 to say, the 200, 000 armed lutionary Communist party, such as dom take these figures too seriously. Just wait fag dignitaries of the Bay State by sending proletarians. The dis content of the masses inated the Russian situation in 1917. The until they get the hill people and the the two labor men to the electric chait broke out into open revolt and on March Parlalan proletariat was led by the most southerners back from Detroit and wages in Charlestown state prison, bobs up again 18th, the Commune was proclaimed by the motley crowd of petty bourgeois socialists will go down to 20 25 cents an hour, to reopen the famous labor CRNO in an Coatral Committee of the National Guard who did not seem to understand the mis your correspondent was informed.
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Government until regular elections could be anxious as possible to shift responsibility. also building in Memphis. It is intended organized. Thlers and his ministers untor They could not understand, wrote LisLiberty is ottering 10, 000 for the best to develop a real manufacturing center solution to the Sacco Vanzetti mystery, tunately were allowed to remove them sagaray, an eye witness, that the Com there while Detroit will remain merely aolves with impunity to the reactionary mune was a barricade and not an admindespite the Judgement of the Lowell comcenter of distribution for the northern mittee Another 10, 000 is offered for the Assembly with its headquarters in Ver istration. AS result, the history of region. Moay Fisher plants in Detroit solution of the preparedness day bomb ex.
maltlos.
the leadership of the Commune is an in have been permanently closed. Integra plosion for which Toth Mooney is wasting France, wrote Engels, is country credible series of strategic blunders that tion of manufacturo is the reason giren away his ille in San Quentin in which the historical struggle of the played right into the hands of the reac by oficials. Movement to the low wage The temerity of a leading national classes, more than in any other was car. tlonary camp of Versailles.
south is the real reason.
rled each time to a decisive conclusion. The major tack of the Commune, il magazino, the pot of the reactionaries, in The notorious sweat shop, Briggs, has bringing up these labor cases is another In the velns of the Parisian masses fowed it had been guided by revolutionary also gone south. Reports hero tell of plants source of amazement in Boston, still sullen he tradition of the Commune of 1792 4, of party which understood the meaning of opening in Memphis and other southern and reseatful because the rest of the world the revolutions of July, 1830 1146 olvil war, was to crush the National As coatare. Workers here are being offered Insists on bolleving in the innocence of Peris was now the scene of the frut indo sembly at Vermeilles, But instead of ag opportunities to go back home and teach Sacco, Vanzetti Moon or AUTO INDUSTRY MOVES SOUTH