PC or AHC: "Successful" Paris Commune

First, note the quotation marks -- I'm not so much asking how this event could have continued and creating some kind of anarcho-society in Paris, so much as how it could have become a frontrunner to a (somewhat permanent) French government.

Here's an example: The French military fractures, and one faction allies with the commune government; a civil war ensues, and the pro-commune faction wins, whose general takes over the country, with the blanquists* as political allies.

EDIT NOTE: was "marxists"
 
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This early on, I don't think that it'd be Marxists supporting a general winning control of the country. At this point, that's in the realm of the Blanquists, who were an odd lot... a decade and a half later, they were the biggest left-wing supporters of General Boulanger's bid for power.
 
IIRC, Marx himself stated that the Commune could have expanded beyond Pairs (and the other commune cities of Lyon & Grenoble) if they had marched on Versailles and finished off the forces there. As well, he critiqued the Commune for not seizing the billions of francs stored in the French National Bank in Paris, nor even guarding it, which allowed the non-commune French to rally and arm an army to put down the Commune.
 
The Commune might have had its best chance early on:
During the initial rebelion Thiers narowly escaped from Paris and ordered the troops still under his control (the remainder of the french army was concentrated in Paris at that time) to withdraw from the city, as he feared they could be infected by the munity.

So what if:
-commmune captures Thiers
-more troops end up under commune control
-they advance on Versailles before the Parlamentary Army is rebuild by enlisting returned POWs.

THe biggest problem are the Germans
 
THe biggest problem are the Germans

And the Spanish, and the British, and the Italians, and the Swiss, and the Lowland countries, and... :cool:

Everyone would jump on a successful Commune France. It would be like the Allied Intervention in Russia during the Civil War, only much worse.
 
I don't know, wasn't Bismarck pretty nonchalant about France's internal strife following his victory?

Yes, but the Commune was opposed to peace with Germany.
They had kind of a french version of the "Dolchstoß Legende": French Bourgouise Leadership did onlly make peace because they were afraid to unlease the full might of the peoples war.
 
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