LEADER 04338nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910455201703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03422-8 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674034228 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805656 035 $a(OCoLC)655304858 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10331344 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000218923 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11179155 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000218923 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10228860 035 $a(PQKB)10066091 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300757 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300757 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331344 035 $a(OCoLC)923116452 035 $a(DE-B1597)574405 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674034228 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805656 100 $a19971014d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPaul Lafargue and the flowering of French socialism, 1882-1911$b[electronic resource] /$fLeslie Derfler 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (398 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-65912-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-363) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Faults Enough and to Spare -- $t2 Defending the Faith -- $t3 Beyond All Possible Bounds -- $t4 The Parisians Have Gone Mad -- $t5 That Damned Congress -- $t6 Fusillade at Fourmies -- $t7 A Dangerous Dream -- $t8 Peasants and Patriots -- $t9 Beaten But Not Stoned -- $t10 Let Us Storm the Forts -- $t11 The Myth That Seems Absurd -- $t12 Pleasantries or Naïvetés -- $t13 Absurd and Incredible Conduct -- $t14 Party of Opposition -- $t15 Socialism and the Intellectuals -- $t16 A Force Retarding Human Progress -- $t17 The Unperceived Force -- $t18 One Reform on Top of Another -- $t19 Simply ... Logical -- $tAfterword -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aPaul 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. In an earlier volume, Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882, Leslie Derfler emphasized family identity and the origin of French Marxism. Here, he 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. Despite the crucial part they played in the social and political changes of the past century and the heritage they left, the first French Marxists are not widely known, especially in the English-speaking world. This important critical biography of Lafargue, the most audacious of their much maligned theorists, enables us to trace the options open to Marxist socialism as well as its development during a critical period of transition. 606 $aSocialists$zFrance$vBiography 606 $aPolitical activists$zFrance 606 $aSocialism$zFrance$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocialists 615 0$aPolitical activists 615 0$aSocialism$xHistory. 676 $a335/.0092 B 700 $aDerfler$b Leslie$0210769 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455201703321 996 $aPaul Lafargue and the flowering of French socialism, 1882-1911$92186136 997 $aUNINA