I've run into the question of 'where did the Paris Commune go wrong?' when I speak to Maoist, and the only thing I can think of is that the World simply was not ready for a new post-capitalist world society at that time (due to xyz). Of course they always talk about state power. In your opinions where did the Paris Commune go wrong? Or did it not actually go wrong at all ?
Marx wrote about some mistakes made by the Paris Commune, in 1871 in The Civil War in France, but he supported that revolution. France wasn't ready : it was a country of peasants, the proletariat was only in Paris, and only in some great cities. And Socialism can only be worldwide ! So, in a single city... But it has to be remembered that the Paris Commune didn't collapsed because it "went wrong", but because of the violent military repression by the bourgeoisie.
It didn't spread, and the conditions weren't ripe, and especially not in its favour. What's been recommended above is spot on, really.
The Paris Commune was isolated by the bourgeoisie, and there was anti-commune propaganda all over France. Many peasants looked on the socialists as people who would take their land away from them and give it to the "corrupt, immoral citydwellers". Moreover while the Commune was a "dictatorship of the proletariat" in terms of state organization, economic it was more close to "left-social democracy" (by modern standards). For example the refrained from seizing the Central Bank.
