Click on the title to link to a "Marx-Engels Internet Archive" article by Friedrich Engels in honor of the 20th anniversary of the heroic fighters of the Paris Commune in 1891.
Markin comment:
I should note that there was a little historical controversy over the 'editing' of this piece by the leaders of the German social-democracy like Bernstein and Kautsky. The purpose: to blunt the edge of Engels' rapier-like analysis of the changed military conditions that the urban proletariat would have to fight under, and making it appear that Engels, like them, thirsted on for socialism to be "voted" in. We know the sorry fate of that strategy, although some left militants have still not learned the lesson. So much for untrammelled freedom of expression so beloved of the social democrats, then and now.
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