On this day in 1789, a crowd of nearly one thousand protesters stormed the Bastille in Paris, France, a major event in the French Revolution, commemorated annually as "Bastille Day".
In the months running up to the uprising, the people of France were facing a dire economic crisis, food shortage, and increased militarization of Paris on orders of King Louis XVI. The Bastille was an armory and prison, perceived by many as a symbol of royal authority in the city.
On the morning of July 14th, a crowd of approximately one thousand people surrounded the Bastille, calling for the surrender of the prison, the removal of its cannon, and the release of the arms and gunpowder stored there.
After negotiations stalled, the crowd surged into the courtyard of the Bastille and were fired upon by troops in the garrison. In the carnage that followed, ninety-eight protesters and one defender of the Bastille were killed.
Governor Marquis de Launay, fearing his troops could not hold out, capitulated to the crowd and opened up the Bastille doors. He was captured and dragged towards the HΓ΄tel de Ville in a storm of abuse. While the crowd debated his fate, the badly beaten Launay shouted "Enough! Let me die!", kicked a pastry cook in the groin, and was then promptly stabbed to death.
As news of the successful seizure of the Bastille spread throughout the country, revolutionaries established parallel structures of power for government and militias for civic protection, burned deeds of property, and in some cases attacked wealthy landlords.
King Louis XVI first learned of the storming the next morning through the Duke of La Rochefoucauld. "Is it a revolt?" asked the King. The duke replied: "No sire, it's not a revolt; it's a revolution."
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I hate my options for joining a communist party:
Unless the first one is that way because they heavily gatekeep it seems like a good place to bring young people to add the "doing things" part of the equation that is missing. Just gotta make sure they learn to be MLs and not Trots.
That is, if you want a project lol
The DKP are ideologically committed to not doing shit.
Their local election campaign literally had a platform of "A vote for us is a vote for nothing, we're not doing anything." Like I'm not being hyperbolic, I'm not saying that they had a very narrow or thin platform, I'm not saying that it was insufficiently radical, I'm not saying they ran on being obstructionist so nothing got accomplished, I'm saying they literally ran on doing nothing.
Lol okay then that's not the place to do what I said
I have the same options plus one maiost something that is just too all over the place to even describe, they show up into protests with black leather gloves and jackets on for some reason. Even in 30C heat.
This is a very saccharine take on the dkp and the ko. Their local election campaign was embarassing not just for the outcome but because of its program. Genuinely pathetic effort on their part.
I don't even know how a political party is chauvanist for a single city but they both manage it.
I can't say say anything about the DKP's campaign since they didn't run where I live but I am not surprised to learn that it was embarrassingly bad.
The KP ran in regional elections and I voted for them since they were the least bad option, although their all-male list was kind of a red flag. I encountered a total of two of their posters in the wild which could have been their entire campaign for all I know, I didn't encounter any other presence of theirs online or in real life. They couldn't even be arsed to write a bit on their website (which looks like something from the noughties by the way) about what they wanted to do in regional politics.
I hate to hand it to the trots but at least they're doing something.
Say what you will about RKP, and it's mostly bad, but they show up. I see their stickers and posters. They exist outside of five square meters around NΓΈrreport and that one cafΓ© in Aarhus.
As for regional elections, a total lack of a program is just not acceptable to me when another party is running on banning all brown people from the healthcare system.
Devil's advocate: Being in an organization is better then not being in an organization.
(Within reason of course.)
Instructions unclear, taking up arms under the banner of Al-Jolani