WI:Paris Commune

Yeah,i know this concept have been done thousands of times,but..

What will happen if the Communards won?

Will they export their ideas?
 
Well,this scenario made them control France.

Which scenario are you talking of? I mean, Commune movement in France is a complex one, and saying "they won" isn't that much helping.

First, there were different "parties" in Commune. Traditionally, they're divided in "neo-jacobins" and "socialists".
The first ones were republicans, asking for a social republic in 1793 lines and hoping to launch a movement like the radicalisation of French Revolution. They were divided buy still forming a majority.
The "socialists" were divided between AIT - WIA (that were themselves divided in marxists, bakuninists, etc), proudhonist and mutualists, and some others. They represented far-left ideologies, and while WIA was strong, its divisions didn't helped to have much of a coherence. Admittedly, their first goal was to win the war and to make front with neo-jacobins depsite a huge distrust from the first ones.

Second, Paris Commune didn't had much time to enact a real program. It's hard to know what they would have done in case of a victory, critically seeing the divide between a conservative countryside, and a left/far-left leaning urban regions. They do enacted measures, still, that look like a mix between radical III Republic and far-left program that were taken decennials after.

Third, Paris Commune while the most important exemple of it, isn't the only of of communalist movement. In many provincial towns, there were insurrections as well (short-lived, except Marseilles) that differed from Paris (more neo-jacobinism for some, more liberals for others, etc).

So, depending on how they win, when and what win, the result can be really, really different.
 
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