Today in Labor History March 23, 1871: Far left workers proclaimed communes in Lyon and Marseilles. The Paris Commune began March 18. Workers, including Cluseret and Mikhail Bakunin and other anarchists and left socialists of the International Workingmen’s Association, had tried to create a commune in Lyon in 1870, as well. Prior to this, Cluseret fought the bourgeois moderates during the 1848 Paris uprising. And in 1860, he joined Garabaldi in his fight for Italian independence. In 1860, when William Sewell made a plea for European generals, he joined Union army with letters of support from Garibaldi, serving as a colonel, commanding troops in Shenandoah Valley. He eventually rose to the rank of general, but eventually quit when he was accused of insubordination for complaining about the abuse of civilians by Union troops. After that, he joined the Irish Republican cause, managing to escape a death sentence by the British. During the Paris Commune, Cluseret served as Minister of War. However, when he refused to arrest Monsignior Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, he was arrested for collusion with the enemy.

Cluseret once said, “the U.S. presents that strange anomaly of enslaved labor in a free nation. Politically free, the worker is socially the capitalists’ serf.”

Marx called him an opportunist and an overambitious babbler.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #civilwar #paris #lyon #Marseille #commune #bakunin #anarchism #cluseret #workers #marx #slavery #Abolition #independence

> Perpetual War is the Price of the State’s Existence https://www.anarchistfederation.net/perpetual-war-is-the-price-of-the-states-existence-2/

In some #FoodForThought.

#AmericanEmpire #warfare #state #Bakunin

Today in Labor History March 13, 1848: The German revolutions of 1848-1849 began in Vienna. While the middle classes were fighting for a unified German state and increased civil liberties, the working class had more revolutionary aspirations. Participants in the revolution included communist and anarchist revolutionaries like Marx, Engels and Bakunin, as well as the composer Wagner. The aristocracy exploited the split between the classes, facilitating their eventual violent defeat, with great loss of life and mass imprisonment. Many fled to the U.S. and became known as “forty-eighters.” They moved to places like Cincinnati’s Ober der Rhine neighborhood, or Saint Louis. After risking their lives fighting against serfdom in Europe, many were so horrified by the persistence of slavery in their new country that they dedicated themselves to the cause of abolition and free thinking, joining organizations like the Freimӓnverein (Society of Freemen) and the Wide Awakes (a radical militia that defended free blacks and fought Confederates in the streets). Some of them also became publishers, like Henry Boernstein, who had previously published “Vorwärts!” in Paris with Karl Marx, Engels, Heinrich Heine and others.

You can read more on The Wide Awakes and the Antebellum Roots of Wokeness here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/27/the-wide-awakes-and-the-antebellum-roots-of-wokeness/

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Parafraseando a *Mijaíl Bakunin*

«El Estado […] es la más flagrante, cínica y completa negación de la humanidad».

*Mijaíl Aleksándrovich Bakunin* (Михаил Александрович Бакунин en ruso, también *Miguel Bakunin* en los países de lengua castellana) (30 de mayo de 1814-1 de julio de 1876) fue un anarquista ruso

· @Rafael

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https://rafaeldios.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/parafraseando-a-mijail-bakunin/

#Bakunin #CitaCélebre #Parafraseando

 Bakunin e Malatesta, disegnati da Gabriele Roveda, per la copertina di "A" n. 76 dell'agosto-settembre 1979

#autogestione #bakunin #malatesta #gabrieleroveda

Pierre Joseph Proudhon 

Nació un 15 de enero de 1809 en Besançon
(- Passy, 19 de enero de 1865)

Filósofo, político, economista, periodista y revolucionario socialista #libertario y #anarquista frances y, junto con #Bakunin, #Kropotkin y #Malatesta, uno de los padres del movimiento anarquista histórico y de su primera tendencia económica, el mutualismo. Fue la primera persona en llamarse a sí mismo anarquista.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon#/media/File%3APortrait_Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon.jpg

Today in Labor History January 14, 1850: Anarchist Michael Bakunin was condemned to death by a Saxon tribunal while imprisoned in the Königstein fortress. In 1848, he had published his Appeal to the Slavs, arguing that Slav revolutionaries should unite with Hungarian, Italian and German revolutionaries to overthrow the Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1849, he helped lead the May Uprising in Dresden. His Saxony sentence was later commuted and in 1851 he was handed over to the Russian authorities.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #bakunin #russia #prison #Revolution