The Saga of French Republicanism

In this video I elaborate on the interrupted evolution and serial hijacking of the French Republican project by the two Napoleons, Hitler/Petain, the elder De Gaulle (sadly), and lately Emmanuel Macron.

ERRATA: The 4th Republic ended in 1958, not 1968. I mispoke the incorrect date in the video.

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The First French Republic (1792-1804)
https://www.britannica.com/place/France/The-First-French-Republic

The Revolution of 1848
https://worldhistoryedu.com/what-triggered-the-french-revolution-of-1848/

The Paris Commune of 1871
https://www.marxists.org/history/france/archive/lissagaray/index.htm

The French Resistance (1940-1944)
https://guides.loc.gov/french-resistance-world-war-two

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance)

The Fourth French Republic (1946-1958)
https://www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2024/01/05/the_forgotten_legacy_of_the_fourth_french_republic_1003061.html

France 1968
https://socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/france-1968-a-year-to-remember/

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***19th Century Radical Marxist pocket Library >>>

(If you were a Marxist Revolutionist in 1880s Europe you had read and sought to apply these)

The 17 Articles of the Declaration of The Rights of Man and Citizen (1789-1791)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Declaration-of-the-Rights-of-Man-and-of-the-Citizen

"The basic principle of the Declaration was that all “men are born and remain free and equal in rights” (Article 1), which were specified as the rights of liberty, private property, the inviolability of the person, and resistance to oppression (Article 2). All citizens were equal before the law and were to have the right to participate in legislation directly or indirectly (Article 6); no one was to be arrested without a judicial order (Article 7). Freedom of religion (Article 10) and freedom of speech (Article 11)...

(Marxists interpreted the right to property to mean personal property, not private ownership of the means of production)

The Manifesto of The Communist Party (1848)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

Catechism of a Revolutionary or The Revolutionary Catechism (1869)
https://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm