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Paris Commune at 150: Still going strong and challenging digital capitalism April 28, 2021 2:26 PM CDT By Dennis Broe
Women and men at the barricades in defense of the Paris Commune in 1871. | CC01.0, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons
PARIS Here in Paris, we are now living through the 150th anniversary of the Commune, identified by Karl Marx as perhaps the first worker’s republic established in the history of humanity. The commune lasted 71 days, beginning March 18, 1871, and ended in violent repression during what was called “the time of the cherries” the budding of the cherry blossoms in the bloody week of May 21 to 28.
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