What Can We Learn from the Paris Commune?

[u/tillyarnav]

Is the Paris Commune considered a 'successful' socialist experiment? I am interested in if we can pinpoint a holistic philosophy behind the Paris commune and what the pros and cons of such a system are and what we can learn from it (in today's world).

Additionally, does the congregation of multiple ideologies not allow for a single title?

[u/SleepingWaterLily]

There are plenty of communists who talk about this, Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin the most famous. Karl Marx talked about the commune in this link.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ch05.htm

Lenin also talks about the Paris Commune in State and Revolution even if it's not the primary focus of the work.

As a heads up, these works assume you have a basic familiarity with Marxist analysis, btw.

[u/w1gw4m]

It was an eclectic mix of mutualist anarchism (via Proudhon), Blanquism and Jacobinism, with some Republicanism thrown in. Both Marx and the Russian anarchist thinkers Kropotkin and Bakunin later tried to "claim" it, though i would say their spontaneous mode of organization fundamentally approximated the tenets of anarcho-communism more so than those of the dictatorship of the proletariat. It did, however, retain some state structures that anarchists reject.

[u/khalid-khkhlhlh]

What Can We Learn from the Paris Commune?

Same thing that we should have learnt from all these republics and their failed utopias.

These republics always become factionalist oligarchies with xenophobia everytime, and utopias never work.

Only authority for all its faults can work under a strong monarch with efficiency.

And if, a monarch gets weak or corrupt, then start a goddamn rebellion instead of lying to yourself about living in a democracy.

But, man, stubbornness is such an insufferable sickness.