What would happen if the Paris Commune gained the support of the majority of Metropolitan France? Can the Socialist State set up survive in the 1880s?
POD is that Prussia (soon to be Germany) demands colonial concessions from the French government after the Franco-Prussian War, let’s say Madagascar, parts of French Equatorial and West Africa and possibly Indochina as well. This causes increased resentment in France against the government for its catastrophic failure. The ordinary Frenchman sees hope in the Paris Commune, and declare the 'Commune of France'. A brief but bloody civil war results in a Communist victory and the Commune is properly established in European France.
Is this likely? Would the new communist government try to take the colonies in Africa, they would call it 'Liberating the working man in Africa'? Would Britain or Germany stand for the new revolutionary government in Paris, considering what happened the last time something like that happened? Basically, can the Commune of France survive into the 20th century?
POD is that Prussia (soon to be Germany) demands colonial concessions from the French government after the Franco-Prussian War, let’s say Madagascar, parts of French Equatorial and West Africa and possibly Indochina as well. This causes increased resentment in France against the government for its catastrophic failure. The ordinary Frenchman sees hope in the Paris Commune, and declare the 'Commune of France'. A brief but bloody civil war results in a Communist victory and the Commune is properly established in European France.
Is this likely? Would the new communist government try to take the colonies in Africa, they would call it 'Liberating the working man in Africa'? Would Britain or Germany stand for the new revolutionary government in Paris, considering what happened the last time something like that happened? Basically, can the Commune of France survive into the 20th century?