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, 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.

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/

TFW: You realize that you were an anarchist decades before even hearing the names #Kropotkin & #Bakunin

On that note, it's #BandcampFriday!

What fediverse artists are you supporting today? Hit me up with links!

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Hat jemand von euch das #Buch

"Aber nein, sagte #Bakunin und lachte laut"?

Wenn ja, wie genau war der Kontext des Titelsatzes im Buch?

Da ging es um die US-Einwanderungsbehörde, oder?

Zoe Baker: *The Birth of the Anarchist Movement*

https://youtube.com/watch?v=w5c1TWMV7Mg

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.

Ja zum Referendum durch Volksinitiative: https://www.aurianneor.org/ja-zum-referendum-durch-volksinitiative/

#anarchie #Aristoteles #aurianneor #Bakunin, #demokratischebewegung #direktedemokratie #EliséeReclus #Freiheit #gesellschaftdernationen #halbdirektedemokratie #ideen #könig #minderheit #politik #referendum #referendumdervolksinitiative #Rousseau #selbstbestimmungsrechtdervölker #sterbenfürideen #sustainability #vereintenationen #volk #wahlrecht

Read #Marx and #Bakunin, but also read #AiméCesaire and Franz #Fanon

None of them have all the answers, but all of them are a good place to start thinking about something that is yet to be finished or complete.

Bakunin trifft Marx

https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/7f5863cd-7694-435f-a2fc-447ceefd72c3

La gente de @editorialimperdible sigue publicando las obras completas de #Bakunin y ya van por el cuarto tomo:

https://fal.cnt.es/producto/mijail-bakunin-obras-completas-tomo-iv/

Vía #FAL Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo

#FarageRiots #EDL #SovereignIdentity My eye caught by the #Symbolism. It seems that these thugs have appropriated a symbol of #Anarchy. Admitting that they really want a total breakdown of Society. Do you think any of them have read #Bakunin? (#AnarchoSyndicalist)

Si al referendo de iniciativa polular: https://www.aurianneor.org/si-al-referendo-de-iniciativa-polular/

#anarquía, #aristote, #art, #aurianneor, #bakounine, #bakunin, #Democracia , #democraciasemidirecta, #DerechosHumanos , #derecho #voto, #eliséereclus, #ideas, #libertad, #minoría, #morirporlasideas, #movimiento democrático, #nacionesunidas, #política, #pueblo, #referéndum, #iniciativapopular, #rey, #ric, #rousseau, #sintonterías, #sociedaddenaciones, #Sostenibilidad

Yes to the popular referendum! : https://www.aurianneor.org/yes-to-the-popular-referendum/

#anarchy, #aristotle, #art, #aurianneor, #bakunin, #democratic, #directdemocracy, #dyingforideas, #eliséereclus, #freedom, #ideas, #king, #minority, #nononsense, #people, #politics, #referendum, #referendumofpopularinitiative, #rightofpeoples, #selfdetermination, #rousseau, #semidirectdemocracy, #societyofnations, #unitednations

Tal día como ayer 1 de julio de hace 148 años falleció Mijaíl Aleksándrovich #Bakunin (1814-1876). Nació el 30 de mayo de 1814 en Pryamukhino, Torzhok, Tver, (Imperio ruso) y murió el 1 de julio de 1876 en Berna, Berna-Mittelland, Berna, (Suiza). Fue un anarquista ruso. Es posiblemente el más conocido de la primera generación de filósofos #anarquistas y está considerado uno de los padres de este pensamiento, dentro del cual defendió la tesis #colectivista y el #ateísmo.

https://sobrelaanarquiayotrostemasvidayobradepensadoresy.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/mijail-alexandrovich-bakunin-vida-y-obra/

Today in Labor History June 19, 1903: Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, was arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike. As strange as it may seem, in light of his rise to become one of the most powerful and violent fascist leaders in the world, Mussolini came from a radical leftist background. In his youth, he idealized figures like Bakunin and Garibaldi. His father, who was a socialist, named him Benito, after Mexico’s liberal leader Benito Juarez. His two middle names, Andrea and Amilcare, were named after Italian socialists Andrea Costa and Amilcare Cipriani.

Today in Labor History June 16, 1848: Rebellious citizens captured the Berlin arsenal, as revolution swept across 50 European states, mostly affiliated with the German Confederation and Austria. 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 Mikhail Bakunin, as well as the composer Wagner. The revolutions were all eventually suppressed, 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.

Read my history, The Wide Awakes and the Antebellum Roots of Wokeness here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/?s=wide+awakes