Sunday
Jan222012
Commune plus one
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 05:43PM By James Panero
On Occupy Wall Street & the legacy of the Paris Commune.
November 2011, for the New Criterion
They were madmen, but they had in them that little flame which never dies.
—Pierre-Auguste Renoir
[EXCERPT]
Occupy Wall Street is but the latest revival of a spectacle that has been performed many times before—not necessarily in the Arab Spring, which saw regimes toppled through political means, but in certain incarnations of idealistic vision that emerged out of a seventy-two-day experiment in Paris nearly a century and a half ago. Before there were the Tompkins Square Park riots, the student takeovers of 1968, or Occupy Wall Street, there was the Paris Commune of 1871.
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