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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.
A classic work by Karl Marx on the Paris Commune of 1871, written as a series of addresses to the International Working Men's Association. The document covers the historical background, the course and the significance of the workers' revolution in France.
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"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
A classic work by Karl Marx on the historical significance of the Paris Commune and the Franco-Prussian War. Engels' introduction provides a historical overview of the events and the context of the civil war in France.
Marx, in The Civil War in France (1871), written during the Commune, praised the Commune's achievements, and described it as the prototype for a revolutionary government of the future, "the form at last discovered" for the emancipation of the proletariat. Marx wrote that, "Working men's Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the ...
Jun 5, 2012 · 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" was a pamphlet written by Karl Marx as an official statement of the General Council of the International on the character and...
