The commune

For the Proudhonists, the Commune and federalism meant decentralisation. For the Blanquists, it was the revolutionary Commune of 1792 and 1793, the inspiration of the Republic one and indivisible, dictatorial and centralising. For the last Fourierists, it was the realisation of the phalanstery, the wellspring of a new society. For the Internationalists, it was a bit of all this and something else as well; those of Proudhonist provenance saw it as a kind of generalised self-management; for others, it was already the rather summary communism they dreamed of; for others again, it was confusedly the dictatorship of the proletariat. For all, except neo-Jacobins and Blanquists, and here we reach the essential, it was the destruction of the existing centralised state and the constitution of a new state that would wither away.-- Henri Lefebvre-
== AQ-207: The commune; Attainment; Comminuted; ==
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