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Louis-Auguste Blanqui

Geburtstag: 8. Februar 1805
Todesdatum: 1. Januar 1881

Louis-Auguste Blanqui [lwi oˈgyst blɑ̃ˈki] war ein französischer Revolutionär, Theoretiker und 1871 Mitglied der Pariser Kommune. Wikipedia

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„Meine Herren Richter“

— Louis-Auguste Blanqui

„Meine Herren Richter,
Ich bin angeklagt, zu 30 Millionen Franzosen, Proletarier wie ich, gesagt zu haben, daß sie das Recht auf Leben hätten. Wenn das ein Verbrechen ist, so scheint es mir wenigstens, dann sollte ich mich dafür nur vor Menschen verantworten, die in dieser Sache weder Richter noch Parteien sind.“

— Louis-Auguste Blanqui

Verteidigungsrede vor dem Schwurgericht am 12. Januar 1832, übersetzt von Dagmar Dilcher, aus: Auguste Blanqui, Instruktionen für den Aufstand, herausgegeben von Frank Deppe, Frankfurt am Main 1968
"Messieurs les jurés,
Je suis accusé d'avoir dit à trente millions de Français, prolétaires comme moi, qu'ils avaient le droit de vivre. Si cela est un crime, il me semble du moins que je ne devrais en répondre qu'à des hommes qui ne fussent point juges et parties dans la question." - Défense du citoyen Blanqui. Procès des quinze. Paris 1832. p. 77 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=_PxCAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA77

„He who has iron, has bread. People bow down before bayonets; a disarmed crowd is swept aside. But a France bristling with workers in arms means the advent of socialism. In the presence of armed proletarians, all obstacles, resistances and impossibilities will disappear.“

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— Louis Auguste Blanqui

"Warning to the People" (1851)

„A revolution determines, within the social body, an instantaneous process of reorganisation akin to the tumultuous combinations of the elements of a dissolved body that then tend to recompose themselves in a new form.1 This process cannot begin as long as a breath of life animates the old aggregation. As a result, the ideas that would reconstitute society will never take shape so long as a cataclysm, by dealing the old, decrepit society a mortal blow, has not freed the captive elements whose spontaneous and rapid fermentation will organise the new world. All the powers of thought, all the greatest efforts of intelligence are unable to anticipate this creative phenomenon that can break out at any given moment. One can prepare the cradle, but not bring to life the long-awaited being. Right up until the moment of death and rebirth, the doctrines [that will serve as the] bases of the future society remain vague aspirations, distant and hazy glimpses. They are like a blurred and floating silhouette on the horizon, the contours of which cannot be determined or grasped by human efforts.“

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— Louis Auguste Blanqui

On Revolution (1850)

„For in the end what is at issue in this idea of the cooperative is as clear as day. It is a means of preparing the daily bourgeois stew [pot-au-feu bourgeois] at all costs, divorced from any political thought, from any revolutionary struggle. It is the political and social abdication of the proletariat under the pretext of socialism; indeed it is not even that! Everyone is careful to insist and to prove that socialism has nothing to do with it, which is the truth.“

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— Louis Auguste Blanqui

"Letter to Blanqui’s Supporters in Paris" (18 April 1866)