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		The Blanquists, who quickly imposed themselves among the refugees (quite symbolically, the guard of honor posted around the catafalque during the mass demonstration on December 17 1871 was composed, among others, of Dereure, Mégy, Louis Galtier and his brother), found themselves in an ambivalent position.
		It was at that moment that the Blanquists began to exert an overwhelming influence on the editorial policy of Le Socialiste.
		The old Blanquist Benjamin Flotte was there to make the introductions at a meeting attended by 150 Internationals of all nationalities, and to hand the escapees an important sum of money ($165) collected among the French residents in California so as to cover their travel expenses back to Europe.
	biosoc.univ-paris1.fr /maitron/Dico/dba2.htm (4598 words)

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		The members of the Commune were divided into a majority of the Blanquists, who had also been predominant in the Central Committee of the National Guard; and a minority, members of the International Working Men's Association, chiefly consisting of adherents of the Proudhon school of socialism.
		The great majority of the Blanquists at that time were socialist only by revolutionary and proletarian instinct; only a few had attained greater clarity on the essential principles, through Vaillant, who was familiar with German scientific socialism.
		And in both cases the irony of history willed -- as is usual when doctrinaires come to the helm -- that both did the opposite of what the doctrines of their school proscribed.
	history.hanover.edu /modern/marx/MARXFRC4.html (1152 words)

	1872: The Hague and the Congress
		The Blanquists could not possibly have any influence on the General Council unless it remained where it was, i.e.
		The lords of the earth and the lords of capital always use their political privileges to defend and perpetuate their economic monopolies and to enslave Labour, and therefore the conquest of political power is the great duty of the proletariat.
		The Blanquists accepted the principle of the strike as a means of political action, but their real interest remained the barricade.
	www.marxists.org /history/international/iwma/documents/1872/hague-conference/introduction.htm (3065 words)

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		For a long time their views were not considered, because4 when the Pairs Commune marked "the parting of the ways" between Marxism and Anarchism, Blanquism was nowhere to be seen.
		However, it was among the Blanquists proper that the idea (that for a long time animated many movements, including the Social-Democratic, especially the Russian) came about of the professional revolutionary leadership supplementing its earning by armed robbery..
		The Anarchists did not idealize the "Lazurus Class" but their attitude was different from Marxists or Blanquists, though individual Anarchists might accept the views of Marx or Blanqui.
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/BonnotGang/truthAbout.htm (5071 words)

	Paris Commune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Despite the formal reformism of the Commune council, the composition of the Commune as a whole was much more revolutionist.
		Revolutionary trends present included anarchist and Marxist socialists, Blanquists, and more libertarian republicans.
		Due to the variety of tendencies, the high degree of workers' control and the remarkable cooperation amongst different revolutionists; the Paris Commune has been celebrated by anarchist and Marxist socialists continuously until the present day.
	1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/p/pa/paris_commune.html (811 words)

	Weekly Worker 449 Thursday September 26 2002
		Draper believes that this constitutes a criticism of the Blanquist plan for the communist elite to gain power by means of a coup.
		Finally, in chapter three, Marx says that the socialism supported by the working class in France is “a declaration of the permanence of the revolution, the class dictatorship of the proletariat as the necessary transit point to the abolition of class distinctions generally”.
		He discusses the Blanquists ‘conversion’ to scientific socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/449/peaceful.html (4409 words)

	Chapter Thirty-Five, THE PARIS COMMUNE
		Just prior to this event, the Blanquists have tried to stage a communist putsch, but the masses have not been prepared for the attempt, and the group is arrested and condemned.
		In the meantime, as Paris is being attacked by the Prussians, all the workers, including the Blanquists, rally to the defense of the city.
		The Blanquists, although strong centralists, agreed to the scheme of a federation of communes, while the Proudhonists, traditionally opportunists, came out for insurrection.
	www.weisbord.org /conquest35.htm (5233 words)

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		Then, the proletariat, a true industrial working class, had to evolve, had to grow to the point that it constituted a significant proportion of the population, had to develop "class consciousness," and had to be brought to the state of conviction and desperation necessary to spark it to revolutionary action.
		Blanquist: Louis Auguste Blanqui was a French Revolutionist who believed that progress would come only when a tightly-knit, conspiratorial elite succeeded in seizing government power and using the power of the government to reshape society.
		To most Marxists, "Blanquist" was a dirty word to describe those who didn't know their Marx, and who thought revolution could precede, rather than follow, economic and social development and the creation of "class consciousness" among the people.
	www.uscsu.sc.edu /~tpowers/hist102/bolshrev.html (3645 words)

	Jules Guesde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Those who refused all compromise with a capitalist government followed Guesde, while the opportunists formed several groups.
		Guesde took his full share in the consequent discussions between the Guesdists, the Blanquists, the possibilists, etc. In 1893 he was returned to the Chamber of Deputies for Lille (7th circonscription) with a large majority over the Christian Socialist and Radical candidates.
		He brought forward various proposals in social legislation forming the programme of the Labour party, without reference to the divisions among the Socialists, and on November 20 1894 succeeded in raising a two days' discussion of the collectivist principle in the Chamber.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jules_Guesde (493 words)

	History of The First International by G. M. Stekloff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Led astray by the vociferations of the Blanquists, the Pyatists, all others of the same kidney, these latter-day internationalists were reserving their courage and their powder for the home-grown Prussians.
		But, inasmuch as they looked especially towards the independent activity of the workers, they came into sharp conflict with the Blanquists who formed the majority in the Commune, for the minds of the latter were nourished upon memories of the great French revolution and were animated by the desire to imitate the Jacobins.
		Blanquists like Vaillant, Marxists like Lafargue, and Proudhonists like Charles Longuet, were unanimous in advocating the participation of the workers in the political struggle.
	www.marxists.org.uk /archive/steklov/history-first-international/ch12.htm (6195 words)

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		Besides implying that anarchism was almost a heresy and forbidding the formation of separate sections, one of the most important decisions taken by the conference was to declare the necessity for workers to form their own political party, independent of bourgeois parties.
		With the complete absence of the anarchists and the support of the Blanquists, this was easily carried.
		Bakunin, who could not attend the congress, lost much of his support at the congress, and only six delegates, two from the Jura and four from Spain, were supporters of Bakunin.
	flag.blackened.net /blackflag/215/215bakunin.htm (2129 words)

	Eighteenth Brumaire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Reflecting the failure of the bourgeois democratic revolution in Germany, Marx broke with the parliamentary democrats in France after the abortive uprisings of June 1848 and 1849, and formed the Universal Alliance of Revolutionary Communists together with the Blanquists.
		Thus, Marx and Engels supported the Blanquist plan to reply to the restriction working class suffrage in May 1850 with a mass insurrection establishing an extended political dictatorship, which was necessary to win both the national and international class war that would result.
		The transition to communism and the abolition of the state dictatorship could only occur on a world scale by bringing the revolution to Britain, which dominated the world market.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext21/Bernie.html (982 words)

	((i)) Centro de Média Independente - Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But the Blanquists are just making their program known to the world by a proclamation to the "Communeux".
		These Blanquists are not called by this name, because they are a group founded by Blanqui.
		Nevertheless our London Blanquists agree with the principle, that revolutions do not make themselves, but are made; that they are made by a relatively small minority and after a previously conceived plan; and finally, that they may be made at ally time, and that "soon".
	pt.indymedia.org /ler.php?numero=57810&cidade=1 (4331 words)

	[Marxism] Re: What is Marxism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The early Marx and Engels identified three workingclass movements with which the German Communist League had a particular affinity: the Blanquists in France, the Chartists in Britain, and the Agrarian National Reformers in the United States.
		Elsewhere--when the "True Socialists" argued that the Germans would have to export socialism to the workers of other countries--Marx wrote that socialism had been initially formulated in France and the United States.
		The Blanquists actually had organizational ties back through various secret societies to Gracchus Babeuf who tried to turn the French Revolution of 1789 into social and economic radicalism.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism/2004-August/012754.html (581 words)

	Portugal -- Revolutionary Developments April 1974-Dec. 1975: Portugal: class war in the barracks
		In the interests of the revolution and of the Commune, said Engels, the Proudhonists abandoned the dogma of "free association" and an antipathy to all centralism.
		The Blanquists, on the other hand, were forced by the course of events to abandon their total reliance on conspiratorial methods and were obliged to take into account the role of the masses in the struggle for the revolution.
		In like fashion, it is time for the PCP to abandon its class collaborationist policy, as it is time for the Maoists to junk their social-fascism and false "superpower" theory.
	www.workers.org /marcy/cd/samport/port/port12.htm (1187 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 38, No. 1 - April 1981 - BOOK REVIEW - Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The "faith" in question is secular millennarianism, in the achievement of social salvation by force, on the assurances of some ideology such as nationalism or communism.
		Jacobins may, have differed from the Babouvists, the Blanquists from many of the secret societies in the first half of the nineteenth century, the Communists from the Socialists, the Anarchists from all others, but they all belong to one religion (p.
		He casts his net wider, to include in principle all those sharing the,.expectation of some pre-ordained all-embracing and exclusive order of things, which was presumed to represent the better selves, the true interests, the genuine will and the real freedom of men" (p.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /apr1981/v38-1-bookreview12.htm (934 words)

	Blanqui, Louis Auguste. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		He was released in 1879 and was elected a deputy from Bordeaux, although the government did not allow him to serve.
		His followers, the Blanquists, were eventually absorbed into the unified socialist party.
		Advocating direct revolutionary action, Blanqui was among the first to conceive of the professional revolutionary.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bl/Blanqui.html (258 words)

	The Paris Commune (1871)
		The insurgents found Paris open for the taking, but the main concern of the National Guard Central committee was to "legalise" it's situation by divesting itself of the power that had so unexpectedly fallen into its hands.
		Instead therefore of following up the rout of the army by marching on Versailles as the Blanquists had urged the Committee entered into the negotiations with the only constitutional body left in the city the Mayors to arrange the holding of the elections.
		Their experience in trade unions and workers association had made them suspicious of political power and this gave their thinking an anarchist tinge (more in the tradition of Proudhon rather than Mikhail Bakunin).
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/talks/paris.html (4360 words)

	The Commune: Paris 1871 P. Guillaume and M. Grainger
		Twenty years later, in 1891, Engels was to write 'what is still more wonderful is the correctness of much that was done by the Commune, composed as it was of Blanquists and Proudhonists'.[2] In other words the everyday experience of the masses impelled them to take measures of a class character.
		The Blanquists, the most determined revolutionaries and the ones most prepared to struggle, lacked any positive social conceptions.
		On March 19 leading Blanquists such as Eudes and Duval 'proposed an immediate march on Versailles' but their proposals encountered no echo on the Central Committee'.
	geocities.com /cordobakaf/solidarity_commune.html (4959 words)

	First International
		The French were largely followers of Pierre Joseph Proudhon - the founder of anarchism - and trade unionists with a sprinkling of French Blanquists.
		Therefore, there was a valid reason to move, escape repression in Europe and to join up with the growing movement.
		However, another reason was to remove the General Council from Europe and the hands of the anarchists and the Blanquists.
	www.fifthinternational.org /LFIfiles/Firstinternational.html (3472 words)

	The Anarchist Encyclopedia: Jules Vallès Page (Valles), (1832-1885; The Anarchist Encyclopedia from the Daily Bleed: A ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Condemned to death, he took refuge in England until the amnesty of 1880.
		Relaunched "Cry of the People" with the help of Severine, giving voice to Blanquists, Guesdists & libertarians.
		Jules Vallès provided the text which accompanied the artist & fellow anarchist Maximilien Luce's series of lithographs based on Luce's prison experience (Luce had been described as a "dangerous anarchist" whose drawings were judged "inciting people to revolt").
	recollectionbooks.com /bleed/Encyclopedia/VallesJules.htm (307 words)

	Plain Anarchism, Marxist Anarchism and Anarchist Marxism (1969) - Melbourne Anarchist Archives
		The French Labour movement, crushed by the defeat of the Paris Commune, had been reviving in the 1880's and 1890's and insofar as it was organised was predominantly under the control of Guesde's Marxists (reformists).
		This control was being challenged in the unions by anarchist proponents of the general strike, Allemandists (revolutionary socialists) and Blanquists.
		An important factor in the ultimate victory of the revolutionaries was the anarchist control under Pelloutier of the "Bourses de Travail" - labour exchanges originally set up by the reformists as a counter to the employers' "Bureaux de Placement".
	www.takver.com /history/melb/maa34.htm (1833 words)

	Logo: Capitalist Tool?
		Naturally, the Proudhonists were chiefly responsible for the economic decrees of the Commune, both for their praiseworthy and their unpraiseworthy aspects; as the Blanquists were for its political commissions and omissions.
		And in both cases the irony of history willed--as is usual when doctrinaires come to the helm--that both did the opposite of what the doctrines of their school prescribed.
		In all its proclamations to the French in the provinces, it appealed to them to form a free federation of all French Communes with Paris, a national organization which for the first time was really to be created by the nation itself.
	www.cs.berkeley.edu /~bh/capitalist.html (4567 words)

	Communist Left - n° 19-20 - 2004
		The aim of the association is the overthrow of all privileged classes and their subjugation to the dictatorship of the proletariat, which will carry through the permanent revolution until the realization of communism, the ultimate form of organization of the human family.
		Later on, tactical alliances would be on the cards again with the formation of the 1st International, which we examine in a later article, but the absolute clear break from all forms of bourgeois politics had been achieved in 1850 and things could never be quite the same again.
		This was particularly in evidence when he became involved in a banquet to fête the polish patriot Bem in February 1851, whilst in similar vein he threw open the pages of the Friends of the People to virtually any refugee group, all of whom could virtually guarantee their articles would be printed.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /italian.left/CommLeft/CL19_20.htm (19224 words)

	The Paris Commune of 1871
		On the 31st, several contingents of National Guards, led by the Blanquists, attacked and temporarily occupied the building.
		At this stage, the mass of the workers was not yet ready to act against the government.
		Between them the Blanquists - energetic men always ready for dramatic and extreme measures but with only the vaguest political ideas - and the Internationalists made up about one quarter of the Commune.
	www.marxist.com /History/paris_comune_501.html (2902 words)

	Blanqui, (Louis) Auguste
		Although in prison, he was elected president of the Commune of Paris in 1871.
		His followers, the Blanquists, joined with the Marxists in 1881.
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	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0003159.html (129 words)

	H-France Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She broadened the debate, criticising capitalist exploitation in the bourgeois republic and demanding radical change.
		The support of Blanquists also caused some alarm.
		Lehning illustrates the degree to which such protest was monitored and marginalised.
	www3.uakron.edu /hfrance/reviews/pilbeam.html (1847 words)

	For Ethical Politics by Andy Blunden, 2003
		Italian revolutionaries, Spanish republicans, English trade unionists with no political agenda at all, Polish nationalists, Blanquists and Bakuninist anarchists, millennialist socialist sects all had their own idea of what the International was.
		The influx of Blanquist and Bakuninist refugees into Swiss and English branches aggravated the already growing tensions within the branches of the International, the growing gentrification of the English union leaders led to a growing distance between the International and the English working class.
		The point is that every generation has had to face changes in the form of radical subjectivity; inevitably the new form is counterposed to the old and usually a generation passes before people adapt to the change.
	home.mira.net /~andy/blackwood/fep/ch02.htm (10201 words)

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