The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in peace in their communal graves, for at least the struggle in which they died has enabled their descendants, isolated in their air-conditioned apartments, to believe, on the strength of their daily dose of television, that they are happy and free. The Communards went down, fighting to the last, so that you too could qualify for a Caribbean cruise. Raoul Vaneigem
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The Communards, or the Paris Commune, was a revolutionary socialist government in Paris in 1871. The Commune was established following the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian war, which ended in 1870. The Communards, led by Blanqui and Marx, tried to establish a socialist state in Paris. The Communards were defeated by the French Army when they refused to accept being ruled by Napoleon III.

Source: The Revolution Of Everyday Life

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