Jules Guesde
Jules Bazile known as Jules Guesde , born with Paris the November 11th 1847 and died in Saint-Mandé the July 28th 1922, is a Politician French.
Via its newspaper the Equality (1877 - 1883), it allowed the diffusion in France of the Marxist ideas .
In 1882, it founds with Paul Lafargue the working Parti , which takes to the name of Parti working French in 1893. In 1893, it is elected appointed of Roubaix, affirming collectivist, internationalist and revolutionist. Beaten in 1898 and 1902, there is re-elected in 1906 and remains appointed until its death. In 1899, it is opposed to Jean Jaurès as for the participation in the “middle-class” ministry of Waldeck-Rousseau.
In 1902, its party amalgamates with several others to form the Socialist party of France. In 1904, at the time of the international Socialist congress of Amsterdam, its theses carried a great success. But the Jaurès current became majority in France. In 1905, the Socialist party of France (French working ex-party) and the French Socialist party amalgamate to found SFIO.
Guesde was also opposed to the Franc-maçonnerie, which he regarded as “allied with the middle-class” and “vermin of the working class”, as he recalled it at the time of the Socialist congress of Limoges in 1906.
In spite of its theoretical positions, he became minister of state of 1914 with 1916 (cabinets Viviani and Briand) and adopted nationalist positions during the First World War.
External bonds
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Guesde and Guesdisme (on the site of London Metropolitan University)
- Jaurès-Guesde, “the Two Methods”, speech of November 26th, 1900 (in connection with the socialist participation in a middle-class government)