The Paris Commune - First Victory of the World Proletariat

by International Communist Party

This study on the Paris Commune is part of a wider work on the workers’ movement in France undertaken by our International Communist Party, following what had been done in the sixties. Reclaiming our own history, that of our class, is a vital necessity for the objectives we set ourselves, the communist revolution and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the logical outcome of the long tormented journey of humanity. The restoration of the doctrine goes through the study of the proletarian movement, of its defeats as well as its victories, in order to draw all possible lessons from it that will be profitable for the resumption of the class movement on these healthy bases. This work is done in conjunction with the vast research on the History of the Communist Left in the 1920s, work and continuity that we are, here again, alone in pursuing...

Genres: History, France

132 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1985

Reviews

[CivilWar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Outstanding book by the one and only International Communist Party, from the 1980s, holding up the analysis and programme of the Commune laid down by Marx and Engels in The Civil War in France (which you should read, it's an essential masterpiece of the first ever communist revolution), while putting together into a single short book all of the other lessons of the Paris Commune gained with more than a century of hindsight since the events, with writers like Lissagary, Lenin and Trotsky adding to it.

It should be remembered that the victory of the Russian revolution was built on the back of the failure of the Paris Commune. All the mistakes of the Commune, and the things it only gave some steps in trying - the failure to immediately march on Versailles, the failure of establishing an alliance with the peasantry, national and patriotic illusions about conciliation with the bourgeoisie, illusions about "communal (municipal) rights", not touching the bank of France, etc - all of these were rectified in the 1917 revolution, only after much study on the Commune after the disaster in 1905. Only through the mistakes of the Commune did the proletariat learn, which is why it remains such a glorious event. And now this book sums up all the experiences of this massive event in a single, accessible package.