![]() ![]() This happened for the first time in 1848. Hence, after every revolution won by the workers, a new struggle, ending with the defeat of the workers. But the demand itself, however indefinite it still was in its formulation, contained a threat to the existing order of society the workers who put it forward were still armed therefore the disarming of the workers was the first commandment for the bourgeois at the helm of the state. It is true that no one knew how this was to be brought about. ![]() These demands were more or less unclear and even confused, corresponding to the state of evolution reached by the workers of Paris at the particular period, but in the last resort they all amounted to the abolition of the class antagonism between capitalist and workers. Thanks to the economic and political development of France since 1789, for 50 years the position of Paris has been such that no revolutions could break out there without assuming a proletarian character, that is to say, the proletariat, which had bought victory with its blood, would advance its own demands after victory. On the 20th Anniversary of the Paris Commune Historical Background & Overview of the Civil War
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