AHC: A Commune in America

With any PoD between the surrender of the Confederacy and the Hispano-American war. Have a commune of Paris situation happen in a large city in the USA, probably either in the Rust Belt or New York. Bonus if you get a Commune of Manhattan.
 

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Perhaps if the Federal intervention in the Pullman Strikes fails somehow? Maybe for some reason not enough soldiers are sent, or the strikers arm themselves in anticipation of the army being used, they form a temporary commune?
 
Why would a commune be started in booming areas like the Great Lakes Region or New York?

If you have bubbling discontent working class movements, they generally tend to thrive in “booming areas” as that is where people move for work and that is where working conditions themselves were often fairly poor in the designated era. In fact the American Rust Belt (more specifically Chicago) was the heart of the Industrial Workers of the World labor movement .
 
Maybe in some places like Atlanta or New Orleans where the CSA survives, but ends up falling to pieces as the various states bicker and abolitionists and supporters of Lincoln learn of his communications with Marx and try to establish communes of everyone being equal while surviving as the CSA tears itself to pieces.
 
Maybe in some places like Atlanta or New Orleans where the CSA survives, but ends up falling to pieces as the various states bicker and abolitionists and supporters of Lincoln learn of his communications with Marx and try to establish communes of everyone being equal while surviving as the CSA tears itself to pieces.

Marx persuading Lincoln to go full commie with a POD in the 1860s is improbable to the point of ASB but I love it.
 
There were some communes in the 19th century, weren't there? Of course they were rather in the countryside... what happened to them?
 
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