Reply #: Marx lived in revolutionary times

[reggie the dog]

anarchists were attacking governements and civilians, workers were pissed off, hell in Paris the city was called a commune until until it was crushed by the army as it revolted as an independent city state "This article is about the government of Paris in 1871. For the Commune during the French Revolution, see Paris Commune (French Revolution).
Le Père Duchesne looking at the statue of Napoleon I on top of the Vendome column: "Eh ben! Bougre de canaille, on va donc te foutre en bas comme ta crapule de neveu!… (Well now! Damn rascal , we will knock you down just like your crook of a nephew!…")

The Paris Commune (French: La Commune de Paris) was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 28 (more formally, from March 26) to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between anarchists and socialists had taken place, and it is hailed by both groups as the first assumption of power by the working class. Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune contributed to the break between those two political groups.

In a formal sense, the Paris Commune was simply the local authority, the city council (in French, the "commune"), which exercised power in Paris for two months in the spring of 1871. However, the conditions in which it was formed, its controversial decrees, and its tortured end makes its tenure one of the more important political episodes of the time." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune

funny but it is rare that I see working class people in power anywhere in the world.....