Paul Lafargue

Biography

Paul Lafargue is born on January 15th, 1842 with Santiago of Cuba. Lafargue regain France in 1851, Paul is then nine years old. It follows secondary studies to Bordeaux then studies of medicine to the Medical college of Paris where it makes knowledge with Proudhon. Following a declaration with the first international congress of the students which took place in Liege in October 1865 and in which it emits the wish to see disappearing the ribbons tricolor with the profit from the only red color, it is made exclude in life from the University from Paris. He emigrates with London where he meets Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx (in February 1865) (of which he marries the girl, Laura, in 1868). He returns then to France where he becomes member of the First International, as of 1866 he is elected at the General advice of International where he represents Spain until the Congress of Brussels in 1868. He takes part in the Commune of Paris in 1871 then gains the Spain where he founds, with Madrid, a section Marxiste (1871) of the 1st International one.

After being itself returned with the Portugal, Lafargue returns to London where it met Jules Guesde, with which, in France, it founds the Parti working French (1880) and his periodical, the Socialist (1885 - 1904).

He is imprisoned in 1883. He becomes appointed of Lille in 1885. He is re-elected in 1891 whereas he was again imprisoned following riots.

He is the author, inter alia, of the famous the Right to the idleness (1880), of a Cours of social economy (1884), Communisme and the economic Evolution (1892), and Socialisme and the Conquest of the public authorities (1899) and many polemical texts or circumstances.

It Suicide with its wife, septuagénaire in 1911 while justifying itself in a short letter: “ Healthy of body and spirit, I commit suicide before the pitiless old age which removes me one by one the pleasures and the joys of the existence and which strips me my forces physical and intellectual my energy does not paralyze, does not break my will and does not make ego a load with me and the others ”.

Paul Lafargue and Laura Marx are buried vis-a-vis the Mur of Federate the.

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