Original scientific paper

The Cecilia Commune – A Social Experiment

Oliver Kurtović ; Zagreb

Abstract

The anarchist commune Cecilia continues to represent, even today, after a hundred years, a relevant episode in the history of the labour and the socialist movements, as well as the communalist movement It was the first commune based on a conscious attempt to create and study, on an experimental basis, the conditions for an alternative way of life, in the context of a revolutionary change in the world It was established in 1890 and, in spite of numerous difficulties, it managed to survive in its first phase until May 1893, to fall apart definitively after the second phase, in April 1894. Except for being the first attempt of that kind, its enormous significance lies also in the fact that in provoked a universal and tempestuous polemic within the labour movement of socialist and anarchistic orientation, giving that way an important theoretical contribution to the emancipatory ideas from the beginning of the 20th century.

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Hrčak ID:

155184

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155184

Publication date:

31.12.1990.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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