Making a video about "London spikes" would be super interesting (described by George Orwell in Down and out in Paris and London). Just a suggestion!

Friendly reminder to Simon that at least 5 people died in the CHAZ/CHOP zone, the father of their last victim, a black 16 year old gunned down upon driving into the zone, is currently suing the city of Seattle for allowing his son's wrongful death.

“We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.” Mikhail Bakunin

Audio's a bit low, Simon

Thank you for this high-quality channel. I use it as a class tool, and I am quite picky about accuracy. Top notch.

France for the past 150 years: *ok*

@@Tupadre97 may 1968 & the yellow vest

france to world in 18th century: "stfu or you're next!" that was their mentality when the surrounding countries thought that their revolution would spread ideas that will threaten THEIR monarchies.

At least the people in France have the guts to TRY to create a more just society.

@@boscodeoliveira5752 True, but more than not, in doing so, they only create more injustice and tyranny.

That's one thing among others that love the French for ( and in some extent the Spaniards) "revolutionary thinking" its part of their culture and when they say, revolution they really mean business

Ah may 68 the good old days when students were shooting the CRS with cobblestones

@@noah95v99 and the next generations hate the « 68tard ». I’m French and we hate them.

@@basedkaiser5352 I think you probably just come from a right wing background so you and everyone you know hates them, but someone from a completely different background probably has the exact opposite opinion.

It is a center of beauty, and it is one precisely because of the countless revolutionary projects.

Thank you sir for Timestamp in video

Those are all songs by The Communards, Jimmy Summerville's band

Wasn't there a big cultural divide between Paris (which was radical) and the rest of France (which was more conservative)? Paris was also full of Italian, Spanish and Polish immigrants. When Thiers's troops marched into Paris they had been subjected to weeks of propaganda about how the city had been taken over by foreigners and murderous anarchists who were "anti-French." It would be a bit like if they hired a bunch of Blackwater Mercenaries from Texas and marched them into Seattle or New York during a Black Lives Matter protest.

Would be getting top grades if he was my history teacher

Watch business blaze if you want to gauge his qualities as a drinking buddy

Don't watch business blaze, he tries way too hard and it's just annoying

Much more engaging than "turn to your textbook and shut the hell up" ever was. USA whattayagunnado

@@BlueBirdsProductions can't be great at everything.

@@corruptikoo2683 The French are great. They don't take shit from the rich and powerful. Unlike some places that worship the rich and powerful and let them walk all over them and even go as far as defending their abuse...

@@AIPTutorials sometimes they do take it too far tho

@@bennyko723 they riot against climate change then riot against removing subsidies for fossil fuels.

@@AIPTutorials Look like you know shit of France and how bad it turn to be her big state and unproductive. "Rich and powerful" will exist always in all government form, the problem it is whwne that dereive in tyranny and oligarchy.

@@AIPTutorials americans be like

My mom's a Lorrainer, as is her mother. Grandmother's/oma's accent always fascinated me - sounded like a German person speaking French but then speaking English.

@@Replicaate That's so cool! My maternal great-grandmother and great-uncle would speak to each other in Hungarian and German respectively. They confused everyone, because they could both understand the other language, but couldn't speak it lol. I believe it was his parents that were from there. One of the coolest stories my grandmother told me. I love learning about ancestry. Never could learn Hungarian though. Got Spanish quick, but only a few Hungarian idioms

@@Amarianee Hungarian I hear is VERY hard to master for anyone not a native speaker, I give you props for trying at least!

My partner's ancestry is listed as French, though his son looks like a ckean- shaven Viking warrior. After researching it, he discovered that his ancestors lived right on that border, and their allegiance shifted with the situation.

Yea, the soft version that has won a single fight in 4 years. He has millions, he don't mind.

The version that tapped out against Khabib!!

Why is no one see that any arnachist communist utopia always end up with a tankie dictator?

@@pingukutepro it didn't in Catalonia,in mexico and in Paris

@@nazionalpopolare.1919 because it failed

​@@pingukuteprohow do you know?

Because it had been tried in multiple times. @@Catthepunk

Yet it's getting harder and harder to get some actual change Democratic or peaceful protest ways for 5year have now done nothing That's why our president got slapped, they only listen to violence it seems ffs

@@manuxx3543 yeah but im not entirely sure it's good or bad. i mean it's good things don't change to fast because that could create critical errors. but if it goes to slow the people grow more and more upset over time and nasty problems persist. really depends on the issue at hand and further context. I'm not gonna pretend i know a lot about French politics, but i just felt like the French ferocity when their government screws them is worthy of praise. in the USA often they have major problems devastating lives for so long it's considered part of their national identity.

@@sirstrinkalot I'll says the main issues are building up since 25year, and politics even stopped caring about making a good lie about them or anything, only absolutly obvious lies that only our medias praises, so yeah everyone is pissed off, more and more When a trainwreck is happing of decades and you see everyone being apovrished, every state service degrading, basically on our way to be a 3rd world country, any critical error would be gladly taken because at least someone will try

@@manuxx3543 i think in many places politicians suck at lying but many people don't watch them directly and god forbid doubting the news. trusting video's like this on the internet however many people believe to be stupid, they think all video's on the internet are bs which is just a really dumb blanket statement.

But nothing changes

And if you continue with that mind set. And leave your mind open. You will be wise beyond your years. Forever grow and spread that knowledge my friend

I even love learning things I knew but have completely forgotten!!

@@HXXIIA same😅

the paris commune set the way for the socialist world of the 20th century

Hollande? Not really someone who anyone thinks of as neoliberal.

@@somethinglikethat2176 Hollande (like Blair and Clinton) is definitely a neoliberal, but he wasn't President in 2018.

" It wasn't communism or anarchism that destroyed the Cathedral of Paris. It was decades of neoliberal capitalism and the neglect of the public sector. Emmanual Macron succeeded where Raoul Rigault failed." Cut that bullshit man, ND burned because an electricity problem in and nearby building, not because it lacked funds.

Crawler

@@googlefashists4986 how am I even supposed to respond to this

I think I really should shift into writing biographies--fiction has to be believable!

"These Robespierre fanboys" I see, they also have got no heads!

sorry to be that guy but It's actually "Vive la révolution". Viva is spanish

@@hugol4487 You're not alone . I was going to say the same thing

I think Bismarck would have been far more satisfied with more money or getting gold from some French mines or silver. Or both.

Alsace and Lorraine had a huge German minority and shared a lot of history with the Holy Roman Empire, so from his point of view I don't think he was aware if it would be a bad decision, more over, even if they didn't conquer some land to France, France will still pretty upset to have such a powerful neighbour and sooner or later there will be a war with or w/o Alsace and Lorraine.

@@mariano98ify Not the case. Land makes things worse. Without Alsace and Lorraine the chances France would hold a grudge like it did would be lower.

@@mariano98ify it's well documented that the was aware and opposed it. His tantrums against his monarchs were big events. We see with the alliances and tensions of the time just how malleable and flexible the empires friendship statuses could be. Austria and Prussia fought together against Denmark, fought a war against each other and then formed an alliance. The Austro-Prussian War concluded with famously light terms imposed on the Austrians. It was fought for narrow political aims, which Bismarck intended the Frano-Prussian to be fought for. There is also the case of the French and Russians allying not long after fighting the Crimean War. The British also allied with them despite fighting against Russia and major recent tensions with France. There are a lot of other examples, such as the British and Ottomans, British and Americans and a funny little Russo-German alliance of sorts that Nicky (Tsar Nicholas) and Willy (Kaiser Wilhelm) made on a boat.

@@bobfg3130 he just wanted German unification, which he knew could be achieved without dunking on the French in the peace terms. A good parallel for the limited aims can be seen in the Austro-Prussian War's settlement in which Austria's main obligation to Prussia was to stay out of German affairs.

Yes, with a few mistakes like writing 1971 instead of 1871.

Completely missed that one as I was in the right century in my mind. 😁

Thousands. Not hundreds. Actually close to twentythousand.

@@OmahaLasse OK even worse point remains the same though.

Right so people see what communism has done toe other countries and then elect such a government and don't understand if they must fight to stay alive. Really? Oh and be careful to judge. If you haven't walked in those people's shoes, I have found you can't say you would have done it differently, you might have or you might not have.

@@lts1682 Buying the propaganda and stories of people offering a chance to change what you have known and the awful way you already live is different to voting for a known killer. Which is what communist states did in the past, they claimed they'd be different where as this bloke was a known murderer. I'm judging them for voting for such a person I'm not judging anything else about them in any way at all. Sorry but actively loving and voting for a known mass murderer is very different to voting for something or someone who sells you a lie and then living with it once you do as it's far to late to change it is a different thing. Communism hid it's crimes at first same as the Nazis and I get how easy it is in a desperate situation to grasp for something offering change and to buy the lies when they are all the information you are given. That doesn't mean I don't think it was wrong and something I wouldn't do myself.

Nah he’s a hero for getting rid of them. I’m French and I thank him.

This video is talking about events 100 and 190 years befor that. 1871, not 1971

Pretty much.

I think the invading army had a hand in it as well

They were literally flattened by a larger army...

Simon's numerexia strikes again!

🤣 I saw that too. Double take, put glasses on... 19? Yeah, it says 19...71.

Yo, that comment tho. It opened my eyes.

Such a great game!!!!! Good shout

@@jusjost most bodacious

Thank you.

I thought it was just based on past socialist revolutions in general, since the game features stand-ins for 20th century socialist ideas and symbols and even a version of Karl Marx, who wasn't as influental yet during the time of the Commune. The aftermath of Disco Elysium's communist revolution doesn't seem very Commune-like either. Paris got re-built and continued to be both very radical and "the capital of the world". Revanchol got razed to the ground, all its revolutionaries killed and now the city is still a shell of its former self. In DE, liberalism won. No one's fighting for the revolution anymore, and no one except a select few people even the game makes fun of for being so useless is willing to try again. Revanchol is more like post-Soviet states (the creators are from Estonia) or countries in the Third World than bright-red, ever-burning Paris.

I suspect YT is turning up the volume on its ads, which is unacceptable when I'm trying to watch a video quietly at work and suddenly an ad for tampons or ZuPoo is screaming loudly enough to be heard through a closed door halfway down the hall. Is YT turning into network TV?

Yes.

Damn right! 🏴✊🚩

I need to agree on this. Perhaps one day our ideoogy will finally get a chance, comrades. A=O

It's a minor blip.

Humanity in itself is a minor blip. This one still took Europe into a new age. The age of social progress.

robespierre did not live to see the commune, he died in the late 1700s

France and England are definitely historic enemies, but that doesn’t mean that Berlin and France can’t also be historic enemies (maybe France just has a habit of pissing off the country’s around it).

The Arabian Desert is pretty big, you'd need a good size tarp to cover all of it

@@Flum666 I mean video idea

Not necessarily. I am Progressive (though my voter registration is Social Anarchist--either qualifies me as Other in New Mexico) and I don't hate Simon in the least. I hate that humans have not figured out how to practice communism in an effective and appropriate manner, though that's not Simon's fault.

Because nearly every Socialist and Commie states model itself after the Commune...

except the Paris Commune was a million times better

I don't disagree with a lot of what you said, but how does rich people leaving take away any of the factories that they owned?

You’re right, there is a big enmity between Paris and the rest of the countryside, but it’s not simply monarchism vs republicanism or socialism. Long before the French Revolution of 1789 the Parisians held an extraordinarily snobbish view of the rest of the country leading to the phrase “there is Paris then there is the countryside” utterly and derogatorily dismissing everything outside of Paris as simply unimportant rural backwater. During the French Revolution of 1789 Paris and her people were seen as the bloodthirsty radicals pushing for greater and greater violence by the rest of the country. A radicalism which soaked a noble idea and a real shot in so much blood that it pushed the nation from republicanism back into the arms of what was essentially an absolute monarchy in all but name. When the Communards reached out to the other cities and major towns in France in 1870/71 they received very little support as the people viewed it as ridiculous and fool hearty. Which, after reading several primary sources from the Commune (especially some from the women’s meetings), it’s little wonder as to why they were so off put. Not to mention the fact that, in a nation with a massive Catholic population (ESPECIALLY in the countryside), they imprisoned then murdered the Archbishop of Paris and several other priests. Yet they wondered why the rest of France took a great dislike to them. No matter how you cut it the Paris Commune was doomed to fail. Even IF it wasn’t so utterly incompetent and riddled with infighting, the radical nature of it wasn’t welcomed by the rest of France. Also, at no point whatsoever would autonomy/independence for Paris have ever worked or even had been on the table as any sort of viable solution.

Read about the band Crass, they lived on a farm in Essex which was an anarchist commune. Look up Dial House

@@NothingSubversive im familiar with crass, im an old punk rocker of 25 years. I actually have a flux of pink indians pin on my bookbag right now, lol. but more than crass, I like Conflict, Subhumans and Stiff Little Fingers. Ive seen them all numerous times except Conflict, I had tickets but they canceld their show in Brooklyn NYC but one day Ill get out there to see there old geriatric asses play.

@@serbryndenshiversthecool5928 Subhumans and Stiff Little Fingers are my shit, love both groups. I also like the scene outside the UK, like the Dead Kennedys, Youth Brigade, Germs, and Reagan Youth. I've been trying to see Subhumans live for a while but haven't had the chance yet unfortunately

@@NothingSubversive I live in jersey, but it's only a 50 minute drive to Philadelphia or NYC so I'm there alot so I've seen subhuman 6 times and the last time the singer and I had a beer at the bar and I started talking to another group of older englishman who were super cool and it turned out it was the Buzzcocks. That's what I've always loved about punk that is unheard of in other music, you can see your favorite band and then afterward they're at the merch table selling shirts. But yea no doubt the states have great punk bands but for me I've always been drawn to the brits.

This is true.