Liberals looked at this event and created the term "tankie" from it claiming the Soviet Union crushed a " genuine worker revolution"
154 years ago, on March 18, 1871, the Paris Commune, the world's first dictatorship of the proletariat, was established.
'The "Horrors" of Bolshevism' — British postcard (ca. 1919) published by the Workers' Socialist Federation.
Today marks the death anniversary of Karl Marx, the revolutionary German philosopher whose analysis of capitalism laid the foundations for the modern socialist movement.