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§ The minds · 1871 · Paris · Council delegate (archetype)

The Communard (archetype)

Govern ourselves

The council made flesh.

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Economic−90
SocialistMarket
Governance−74
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+52
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The figure of the 1871 Paris Commune's delegate stands for council communism's living example: a city briefly governed directly by recallable workers' delegates rather than a state.

social

Egalitarian, secular, fraternal.

economic

Production and the city held and run in common.

governance

Recallable delegates and direct self-rule — the council as government.

Notable for
  • The Paris Commune
  • Recallable delegates
  • Self-government from below
paris-communedirect-democracyself-rule
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Herman Gorter
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Sylvia Pankhurst
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Paul Mattick
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