@ChasingGlowies to GenZedong • 2 years agoSo what does this mean for France and the World?imagemessage-square84arrow-up184arrow-down10
arrow-up184arrow-down1imageSo what does this mean for France and the World?@ChasingGlowies to GenZedong • 2 years agomessage-square84
minus-square@hktolink2•2 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-square@hktolink2•2 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☭Mlink1•2 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 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.