The people's communes and the Paris commune

Joseph Liu

pp. 149-165

It is not surprising that Chinese Communists took the Paris Commune as one of their models and the writings of the "classics' of Marxism-Leninism on this subject as one of their main theoretical inspirations. More interesting, however, is the fact that one can show that the Chinese Communist leadership has continually suffered from not being quite certain what the Paris Commune really means — either in theory or in practice.

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DOI: 10.1007/BF01054621

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Liu, J. (1972). The people's communes and the Paris commune. Studies in East European Thought 12 (2), pp. 149-165.

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