A Comparison Between The 1830 Paris Revolt And The French Revolution

However, identification of lantern smashers through punishment and subversion was not very successful. At first, destroying lanterns were random individual manifestations against the government’s surveillance, but later, they evolved into an organised force that overturned the system. The 1830 Paris revolt and the 1848 French Revolution were marked by lantern smashing. Both of these revolutions resulted in bringing down monarchies and, thus, old systems.

Once the rebels took over, the symbolic meaning and use of street lights changed. Sreet lights started to signify victory and ancient bonfires. They represented joy, celebration and recreation. Citizens were able to enjoy more freedom and go about their day as they pleased. Social nightlife started to flourish: “At 8 or 9 the theatre starts, at midnight there is supper…followed by dancing to daybreak. And when the coaches leave the court to go home at dawn, they meet the burghers in the streets, just going to work” The reproduction of life was extended into the night and new entertainment industries emerged, such as evening theatre etc.

Lantern smashing was that powerful act
Under capitalism, various legalistic systems aim to extract value by using rent methods. They impose limits and suspend the potentialities of the immaterial production. Sharing an immaterial resource (for instance, a novice idea) only increases its value (for instance, more ideas could develop), especially if all of the external mechanisms are abolished (for instance, copyrights). This shows that privatization is self-destructive. If communing increases value, then it also eradicates privatisation. As a result, communing creates a novice societal structure – ‘a new seeing, a new thinking, a new