re Paris Commune: (Was Re: capitalism = progressive?)

2004-04-24 Thread Hari Kumar
Mike Ballard: I agree with most of your observations and I'm not trying to play one-upsmanship here; but Marx and many others thought that the French--espeically the workers of Paris--had reached at least a level of class consciousness sufficient to begin to junk the old State machinery and to

Re: re Paris Commune: (Was Re: capitalism = progressive?)

2004-04-24 Thread Mike Ballard
Hi Hari, Marx and Engels supported the Paris Commune. The work I cited in my post gives ample evidence of this. For others, here is the relevant web site on what became known as Marx's Civil War in France: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ Marx wrote that if