V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v8; en:MT;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

HONOURING THE GREATEST WORKERS’ UPRISING OF THE 19TH CENTURY. A HISTORICAL OUTLINE.

1. France under Napoleon III.

Imperialism. (p. 45)

– payment for June 1848. Napoleon III.

– Expropriation of France by a gang of bandits.

α. Bonapartism {the workers are not yet capable, the bourgeoisie is no longer capable{200}}

β. Rapid industrial development. Orgies of the plutocracy. Flourishing of speculation. Corruption.

γ. – The working-class movement —

I. A. A.{201}

– 1862 London Exhibition{202}

– 1864 foundation

2. Dynastic war. Salvation of the gang of adventurers – chauvinism.

The left bank of the Rhine. A Berlin[201] (especially after 1866){203}

19. VII. 70 war declared.

German statements (William I): Verteidigungskrieg[202]. (p. 20 in the throne speech: war with Napoleon III, not with the French people; same on 11. VIII. 70 in the manifesto to the French on crossing the border).

3. Workers’ protests.

4. Outcome of the war.

Sedan 2. IX. 70. Capture of Napoleon III. Débâcle{204}.

5. Advice of the International.


9. Affairs of the Commune.

10. Its merits:

A) Political reforms

α. separation of church from state (2. IV. 71).

Expropriation of church property. Abolition of all state payments to the church.

Free public education (p. 46)

β. abolition of the standing army (30. III. 71) (p. 46)


11. B) Economic reforms.

12. The final struggle.

13. Results and lessons. Revenge of the bourgeoisie. Even a “national war” became political swindling (p. 67).

Betrayed the fatherland (alliance with the Germans: p. 66).

Instability of bourgeois democracy.

Dictatorship of the proletariat.

Bismarck 1871. Confer[203] 1904.