The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-04-20
COMMUNISTS AND COMMUNAL
lists.
THE PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTS OF THE
PARIS INSURGENTS.
From the Pan NAL Gazette, March %.

of the instruction Gas he phrases it) two
streams flowing together towards aims
which are not Identical, but which do
not materially differ. The aim of the
party is the predominance of the poor
over the wealthy classes; ofthc workman
over the master, of labor over capital Il
that of the other party is universal re-
public, founded on free, sovereign, and
confederate coinmunes. The former re
gard the aim pursued by the latter as
the necessary instrument of their Utopia
the latter consider that the end toward
which their colleagues tend would if at
tanned, assure the realization of their
dream, and would give it strength and
duration The writer proceeds:
"To make myself clear, will take the
liberty Of giving to these two allies two
names which appear to me fairly to ex
press their tendencies. | viii call the
first Communist, and the second Com
manalist. The first party is we'll known.
[ may say it is the only one known. It'll
exists in EDgland and in Germany, in
Switzerland and in France, and forms a
vast association under the name of the
Internationale but it is far from present
ing everywhere the same characteristics
that it does here While it has remained
in most Industrial countries league
against the masters with q view to de-
Tending the interests of the workmen,
and to raising the rate of wages, it has
become in France political party and a
philosophical sect, if it may be permitted
to give this title to what has nothing to
do with either scienceOr intelligent spec
uIation. He would be very clever who
should succeed in arranging under one
of doctrine the varied and often CONTRA
dictory ideas with which the adopts Of
this great sect are inspired Most Of
them only understand one thing-that
they wish to possess and to enjoy. They
do not choose that any superior, moral,
social, or intellectual should be placed
above them; they choose, on the contra
ry, to impose their SUPP emicy on all
Others. Their chiefs, the masters OF the
school, are not any better agreed on prin-
ciples of their development. They form
a sort of confused mixture of all the So
cialist and moralist schools which have
divided human consciences since divinity
has been banished from them. The
ideas partake of those of st. Simon and
Fourier; but more especially of those
of CADET and Babeuf. 1t is Babeuf who
has been in reality the precursor in
France of what is being done now; it is
to his doctrines that we must revert if we
wish to have the key to the Utopia which
the Commune of Paris have undertaken
to introduce into the domain of practical
ideas. The doctors Of this applied
| Social Science are-oesides the men
who have governed us for the past ten
days-MM. Blangui, Delescluze Louis
Blanche last, however, the most mod
crate and reasonable among them-Ram
Ter, Mottu, Leo Mellier and some others,
whose names will not be long in starting
up into notoriety. To these must be
added the associates who succeeded in
getting into the National Assembly at the
last elections and who, in receiving this
conservation as Statesmen, have on that
account rather separated themselves from
the party of which they were the chiefs.
Such as MN. Milliere, Tolain, and Malon.
AS for M. Melix Pyat he is sure to be
found wherever the work of destruction
is to be done.
81 should find some difficulty in pas
sing in review here the chiefs of the com
munist school, which has only shown
itself outside the Hotel de Vile under
unknown names, if we except those of
MN. Lefrancais, Flourens, and Jules
Volles. Their ideas have become SO en-
tirely confused now with the communist
opinion that it is impossible any longer
to distinguish between those who profess
to hold to the commune rather than to
communism, and those who are for COM
nunlsm rather than tor the commune
1t is easier to say in what the communal.
ist ideas consist and to what they tend
The task is rendered easy by the last
publication of the Central COMMITTEES
At first the acknowledgements of the Pre-
letariat was alone in question. This zen
franchisment was the first word used to
recruit the body Of proletaries. Almost
immediately after il was desirable to dis
arm the Bourgeois to dissolve the ele.
ments to defence, and there was much
talk of their municipality, of their
nutral franchise, of that dream
OF every good bourgeois of Paris,
Paris governed by itself In this way
the Central Committee succeeded in es.
tablishlng an understanding with the
opposite camp, and in fastening the over
throw of the great party of Order
Having triumphed now over all resist.
ance in the city, the Committee laws asid :
the mask, and explains what it means by
the Commune of Paris 1t will be seen
that we are far removed from merely
municipal revolution, that famous and in
famous Commune of Paris which i'm
posed its sinister DEGREES on the Conven-
ton, the National Assembly of 1898.
1t has, however, some points of resem-
5lance to that, but how far it exceeds it
in its views, its actions, it's aims The
commune of 1871 is sovereign and con
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