KARL MARX

The Drafts of
THE CIVIL WAR
IN FRANCE

from

THE CIVIL WAR
IN FRANCE

FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING

First Edition 1966
Second Edition 1974
Third Edition 1977




Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (October 2000)


PUBLISHER'S NOTE



C O N T E N T S


[Transcriber's Note: The contents of pp. 1-107, which form the principal texts of The Civil War in France, have been prepared as a separate file. -- DJR]
 


INTRODUCTION by Frederick Engels

1

FIRST ADDRESS OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE INTER-
  NATIONAL WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION ON THE
  FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR


 
19

SECOND ADDRESS OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE INTER-
  NATIONAL WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION ON THE
  FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR


 
27

THE CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE Address of the General
  Council of the International Working Men's Association


39

I
II
III
IV
NOTES
I
II


41
55
66
87
104
104
105

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THE DRAFTS OF THE CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE

109

 The First Draft of THE CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE

111

  The Government of Defence

111

  The Commune

156

    1.
2.
 
3.
4.
5.

Measures for the Working Class
Measures for [the] Working Class, but Mostly for the Middle
Classes
General Measures
Measures of Public Safety
Financial Measures

156
158
159
161
164

  La Commune

164


The Rise of the Commune and the Central Committee
The Character of the Commune
Peasantry
Union (Ligue) Républicaine
The Communal Revolution as the Representative of All Classes
  of Society Not Living upon Foreign Labour
Republic Only Possible as Avowedly Social Republic
The Commune (Social Measures)
Decentralization by the Ruraux and the Commune

164
169
179
184
 
185
186
188
193

    [Fragments]

199

 The Second Draft of THE CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE

211

1)
 
2)
3)
 
5)
 
6)
7)

Government of Defence. Trochu, Favre, Picard, Ferry, as the
 Deputies of Paris
Thiers, Dufaure, Pouyer-Quertier
The Rural Assembly
[Transcriber's Note: There is no section 4. -- DJR]
Opening of the Civil War. [The] 18 March Revolution.
 Clément Thomas. Lecomte. The Vendôme Affair
The Commune
Schluss


211
216
221
 
224
235
243

    [Fragments]

247

NOTES

261





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[Transcriber's Note: The endnotes for the two "Drafts" include sixteen which appeared in the Chinese edition of The Civil War in France and have reference numbers from the latter that are necessarily NOT in sequence with respect to the endnotes accom- panying the two "Drafts". -- DJR]



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