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and the image of the drunken commoner,
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this sort of upper class view
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that the Commune was the work of the people
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who had nothing to eat but found plenty to drink in Paris,
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in the caves of other people's fancy apartments,
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that the drunken commoner was capable of inflicting
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the same kind of harm on the upper classes as had been the case,
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or in many cases the imagined case,
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in previous revolutions.
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And, so, the impact of drink itself
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can be seen in the origins of crowd psychology,
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of a very primitive nature, et cetera, et cetera.