The Paris Commune is a bit of history of great importance in Europe but seldom thought of over here. Until the seventies, one of the legacies of the Commune was that a mayor of Paris could not become the president. But if it is discussed here, it is as a small sidebar in the history of the unification of Germany.

I agree with this article that the Commune has some lessons for and parallels to the Occupy movement, though I could do without the moralizing about the Museum of Modern Art.