ChasingGlowies@lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · 3 years agoSo what does this mean for France and the World?lemmygrad.mlimagemessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down10
arrow-up184arrow-down1imageSo what does this mean for France and the World?lemmygrad.mlChasingGlowies@lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · 3 years agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-squareCatradora-Stalinism☭@lemmygrad.mlMlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·3 years agoFrance used to be the home of the communist revolution, now its a fucking shithole
minus-squarehkto@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoFrance has never had a communist revolution: the revolution of 1789 amounted to the bourgeoisie overthrowing the feudal order. Sorry to be a killjoy. There’s good reading to be had in this by Eric Hobsbawm if memory serves.
minus-squareCatradora-Stalinism☭@lemmygrad.mlMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 years agoLook up Paris Commune of 1871
minus-squarehkto@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 years agoI’m not sure it counts. It was certainly a good case study for Marx, but fundamentallyiim going to say it doesn’t count because it only lasted for a month or two. Maybe that’s too arbitrary.
minus-squareCatradora-Stalinism☭@lemmygrad.mlMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 years agohmmm, I guess thats true. I think it was close enough to being a socialist state, if it wasn’t a factionalized mess.
France used to be the home of the communist revolution, now its a fucking shithole
France has never had a communist revolution: the revolution of 1789 amounted to the bourgeoisie overthrowing the feudal order.
Sorry to be a killjoy. There’s good reading to be had in this by Eric Hobsbawm if memory serves.
Look up Paris Commune of 1871
I’m not sure it counts. It was certainly a good case study for Marx, but fundamentallyiim going to say it doesn’t count because it only lasted for a month or two. Maybe that’s too arbitrary.
hmmm, I guess thats true. I think it was close enough to being a socialist state, if it wasn’t a factionalized mess.