Author: Samuel BernsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Beginnings of Marxian Socialism in France
Author: Samuel BernsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Before Marx: Socialism and Communism in France, 1830–48
Author: Paul E CorcoranPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349171468
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
French Socialists before Marx
Author: Pamela PilbeamPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773583858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
French socialism traces its origins to the revolutionary communist Gracchus Babeuf (1760-1797) and for a time during the Second Republic socialists such as Louis Blanc, Etienne Canet, Victor Considérant, Jeanne Deroin, Pauline Roland, Blanqui, and Raspail occupied a prominent place in the attempt to create a reforming social democracy. For Karl Marx, and the dominant academic historians of twentieth-century France who took up his thesis, the early French socialists were worthy only of faint praise or scorn, yet the French parliamentary socialist groups that emerged in the 1880s can be understood only through reference to their predecessors. French Socialists before Marx identifies the major issues for French socialists between 1796 and the 1850s - revolution, religion, education, the status of women, association, and work. Pilbeam demonstrates that the socialists' answer to emerging capitalist competition and social conflict was association, while conservatives, in contrast, defended a liberal economy and united to persecute, prosecute, and deport socialists. French Socialists before Marx fills a significant void in socialist studies, enhancing our understanding of nineteenth-century social thought and strategies. It will be invaluable reading for students of history, politics, gender, French, and European studies.
Jules Guesde
Author: Jean-Numa DucangePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030346102
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
What explains France’s unique Left? Many works have reflected upon the importance of Marxism in France, yet few studies have been devoted to the man who did most to introduce Marxism into its political culture: the today near-forgotten figure of Jules Guesde. It was with Guesde that Karl Marx drafted the world’s first Marxist program, and Guesde who aroused the enthusiasm of countless worker-militants who saw him as their most important leader. Jules Guesde represents the first book-length study of the French socialist leader translated into the English language. For the radical Left today, Guesde is often considered a dogmatist who supported the Union sacrée during World War I and rejected the Bolshevik revolution; for the governmental Left, he embodies an intransigent ideologue who held back the modernization of the French Left. Throughout Jules Guesde, Jean-Numa Ducange argues that it is impossible to study the history of the French socialist movement without a close look at this singular figure and offers a fuller picture of the deep transformations of the Left and Marxism in France from the late 19th century up to the present. This scholarly biography of Jules Guesde seeks to put Guesde’s record on a properly historical footing, closely analysing both archival sources and accounts by his contemporaries. Chapter One begins with his early life and the mark left on him by the Paris Commune and exile. Chapter Two emphasises Guesde’s importance as leader of a distinct current of French socialism, recognised by figures like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Chapter Three sees Guesde become an MP for working-class Roubaix, exploring the contradictions between his revolutionary rhetoric and concrete political practice. Chapter Four turns to the years following his electoral defeat in 1898 and his renewed intransigence in the period of the Dreyfus affair and rivalry with Jaurès. Chapter Five explores his key role in the formation of a united Socialist Party. Chapter Six examines the test of World War I and Guesde’s anguish at the divisions of French socialism. The book then concludes with an examination of Guesde’s contested legacy, as both a “founding father” and figure subject to often pejorative framings.
The Beginning of Marxian Socialism in France
Author: Samuel BernsteinPaul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882-1911
Author: Leslie DERFLERPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674034228
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Paul Lafargue, the disciple and son-in-law of Karl Marx, helped to found the first French Marxist party in 1882. Over the next three decades, he served as the chief theoretician and propagandist for Marxism in France. During these years - which ended with the dramatic suicides of Lafargue and his wife - French socialism, and the Marxist party within it, became a significant political force. Leslie Derfler explores Lafargue's political strategies, specifically his break with party co-founder Jules Guesde in the Boulanger and Dreyfus episodes and over the question of socialist syndicalist relations. Derfler shows Lafargue's importance as both political activist and theorist. He describes Lafargue's role in the formulation of such strategies as the promotion of a Second Workingmen's International, the pursuit of reform within the framework of the existent state but opposition to any socialist participation in nonsocialist governments, and the subordination of trade unionism to political action. He emphasizes Lafargue's pioneering efforts to apply Marxist methods of analysis to questions of anthropology, aesthetics, and literary criticism.
Marxism at Work
Author: Robert StuartPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521893053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This book examines the socialists who introduced Marxism to France in the decades before the First World War.
Socialism Before the French Revolution
Author: William Buck GuthriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The author contends that the ideas behind modern socialism are rooted in the time preceding the French Revolution. The book is his attempt to systematize the early idea from important resources.
A Socialist History of the French Revolution
Author: Jean JauresPublisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780745342191
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The classic history of the French Revolution by the assassinated socialist leader, Jean Jaurès
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Author: Samuel Bernstein