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Read Marx's classic work on the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune of 1871. Learn about the causes, events, and consequences of the civil war in France from Marx's perspective and sources.
- The Fall of Paris
Karl Marx: The Civil War in France. The Third Address May,...
- Introduction
The inevitable result was the Paris Revolution of September...
- The Paris Commune
The Commune admitted all foreigners to the honor of dying...
- Engels 1891 Postscript
If today, we look back at the activity and historical...
- Paris Workers' Revolution & Thiers' Reactionary Massacres
Karl Marx: The Civil War in France. The Third Address May,...
- Images of The Civil War in France
Workers solidarity in France – showing Lyons and Paris...
- Civil War in France
Publication Information: The Civil War in France was...
- The Fall of Paris
"The Civil War in France" (German: Der Bürgerkrieg in Frankreich) is a pamphlet written by Karl Marx, as an official statement of the General Council of the International on the character and significance of the struggle of the Communards in the Paris Commune.
- Karl Marx
- 1871
The Paris Commune ( French: Commune de Paris, pronounced [kɔ.myn də pa.ʁi]) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the French National Guard had defended Paris, and working-class radicalism grew among its soldiers.
Summary. On the 4th of September 1870, when the working men of Paris proclaimed the republic, which was almost instantaneously acclaimed throughout France, without a single voice of dissent, a cabal of place-hunting barristers, with Thiers for the statesman and Trochu for their general, took hold of the Hôtel de Ville.
"The Civil War in France" (German: "Der Bürgerkrieg in Frankreich") was a pamphlet written by w:Karl Marx, as an official statement of the General Council of the International on the character and significance of the struggle of the w:Communards in the w:Paris Commune.
