Thanks for posting this. I went to the Twitter link and read through the thread. Then I read it with the threader app, which puts all the tweets into a coherent essay form, complete with the photos, etc. And it makes a brilliant historical analysis.
The parallels with our situation are very unnerving. Substitute the three-month global shutdown for the Franco Prussian War as the destabilizing event that permitted chaos and violence to take over, and we can see how we got to this point.
Yes, the Commune did collapse Internally to the point where finally the Army could restore legitimate authority, but it took a lot of deaths and horrible violence and destruction on both sides before this happened. I’d rather not go through that...
He’s really just a great read. His knowledge of history is amazing.