On this day in 1848, more than 40,000 French workers initiated the June Days Uprising after the state closed National Workshops that provided work to the unemployed, causing 10,000 casualties and 4,000 workers to be deported to Algeria.
The National Workshops had only been formed a few months earlier, when, on February 25th, a group of armed workers interrupted a session of the provisional government to demand "the organization of labor" and "the right to work".
In late June, the Second Republic began planning to close the workshops, leading to a national uprising. In sections of the city, hundreds of barricades were thrown up. The National Guard was sent in to quell the rebellion, and workers seized weapons from local armories to fight back.
The violence, which lasted just three days, resulted in more than 10,000 casualties and 4,000 participants to be deported to Algeria. Among the dead was Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris, killed while trying to negotiate peace with an angry crowd.
The rebellion was successfully crushed, and the episode put a hold on revolutionary ambitions of radical Republicans at the time. In its aftermath, the French Constitution of 1848 was adopted, mandating that executive power be wielded by a democratically elected president.
The first president under this framework was Napoleon Bonaparte, who dissolved the constitution during his first term in office.
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Local anarchists reminding everyone thst leftists in Iran don't like the current government and therefore supporting Iran in their current struggle is dismissing the left wing people who are there or has to flee there. Cause I guess our spirit bomb style support to Iranian leftists will let them topple the government during a time when stability is pretty crucial and then miraculously not end out in a prolonged civil war. Not to mention, I don't think this Iranian leftists are gonna be able to take hold of any kind of mass movement against the government at this point in time.
I had never heard the term "campists" before this conflict but it sure is being slung around willy nilly right now. Like yeah a communist government (or even anarchist society ig) would be lit but what would the actual outcome look like in this very moment?
Also extremely frustrating that MLs get painted with broad ass brush strokes as if we all don't fucking understand that of course there is a lot of complexity to different societies. Feels like talking to libs where you need to have 50 different sources and need to know and explain the history of politics in the region but they dont need to know shit. Exhausting.
Purity testing gets on my fuckin nerves and I feel like I never see as much mud slinging between left political ideologies than during times of extreme conflict, which is typically one-sided... At least when it comes to my algorithm.
Hell yeah im a campist im taking my swag to a national park and am gunna sleep under the stars
Tell ghost stories and roast some weanis and beanis by the campfire