rol over magistrates and communal
functionaries of every class;

"The absolute guarantee of individual liberty, of liberty of
conscience, and of liberty of labour;

"The permanent participation of the citizens in Communal affairs by
the free manifestations of their opinions, and the free defence of
their interests: guarantees to this effect to be given by the
Commune, the only power charged with the surveillance and the
protection of the full and just exercise of the rights of meeting
and publicity;

"The organisation of the city defences and of the National Guard,
which elects its own officers, and alone ensures the maintenance of
order in the city."

With regard to the affirmation of these rights we may repeat that which
we have said above, that some of them really belong to the Commune, but
that the greater part of them do not.

"Paris desires nothing more in the way of local guarantees, on
condition, let it be understood, of finding in the great central
administration ..."

"... In the great central administration appointed by the federated
Commune the realisation and the practice of the same principles."

That is to say, in other words, that Paris will consent willingly to be
of the same opinion as others, if all the world is of the same opinion
as itself.

"But, thanks to its independence, and profiting by its liberty of
action, Paris reserves to itself the right of effecting, as it
pleases, the administrative and economic reforms demanded by the
population; to create proper institutions for the development and
propagation of instruction, production, commerce, and credit; to
universalize power and property,..."

Whew! Universalize property! Pray what does that mean, may I ask?
Communalism here presents a singular likeness to Communism!

"... According to the necessities of the moment, the desire of those
interested, and the lessons famished by experience:

"Our enemies deceive themselves or the country when they accuse
Paris of wishing to impose its will or its supremacy on the rest of
the nation, and to pretend to a dictatorship which would be a
positive offence against the independence and the sovereignty of the
other Communes:

"They deceive themselves, or they deceive the country, when they
accuse Paris of desiring the destruction of French unity,
constituted by th