The Paris Commune: When the Specter Came to Earth

The Paris Commune: When the Specter Came to Earth
The toppled column of Napoleon I at the Place Vendôme during the Paris Commune in 1871. Andre Adolphe Eugene Disderi/public domain
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Like a funnel cloud longing to touch Earth and become a tornado, the specter of Communism was up in the air, with no Earthly home, haunting Europe in early 1871.

The Paris Commune, a bloody insurrection covering 73 days, became Communism’s first Earthly home, like a tornado touching down. The specter was embodied.