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Born in Paris, he began his career as a clerk in the French Home Office, but on the outbreak of the Franco-German War he was editing Les Droits de l'homme at Montpellier, and had to take refuge at Geneva in 1871 from a prosecution instituted on account of articles which had appeared in his paper in defence of the Commune. In 1876 he returned to France to become one of the chief French apostles of Marxian collectivism, and was imprisoned for six months in 1878 for taking part in the first Parisian International Congress. He edited at different time Les Droits de l’homme, Le Cri du peuple, Le Socialiste, but his best-known organ was the weekly Egalité.
He had been in close association with Paul Lafargue, and through him with Karl Marx, whose daughter Lafargue had married. It was in conjunction with Marx and Lafargue that he drew up the programme accepted by the national congress of the Labour party at Le Havre in 1880Events January 1 Construction of the Panama Canal begins February 2 The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana February 13 Thomas Edison becomes the second person to observe the Edison Effect. February 17 Bomb explodes in Winter Palace, which laid stress on the formation of an international labour party working by revolutionary methods. Next year at the ReimsReims (English traditionally Rheims is a city of north-eastern France, 98 miles east-northeast of Paris. Its history can be traced back to the Roman Empire. Population (1999): 187,206. Administration Reims is a sous-prefecture of the Marne departement in congress the orthodox Marxian programme of Guesde was opposed by the "possibilists," who rejected the intransigeant attitude of Guesde for the opportunist policy of Benoit Malon .
At the congress of St-Etienne the difference developed into separation. Those who refused all compromise with a capitalist government followed Guesde, while the opportunists formed several groups. Guesde took his full share in the consequent discussions between the Guesdists, the Blanquists, the possibilists, etc. In 1893Events January 1 Japan accepts the Gregorian calendar January 2 Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers January 13 The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting. Janua he was returned to the Chamber of Deputies for Lille (7th circonscription) with a large majority over the Christian Socialist and Radical candidates. He brought forward various proposals in social legislation forming the programme of the Labour party, without reference to the divisions among the Socialists, and on November 20November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 41 days remaining. Events 1272 Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England. 1407 A solemn truce be 1894 succeeded in raising a two days' discussion of the collectivist principle in the Chamber.
In 1902Events January-April January 28 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. France, Loisy's L'evangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis February 11 Police beat up universal suffrage he was not re-elected, but resumed his seat in 1906. In 1903 there was a formal reconciliation at the ReimsReims (English traditionally Rheims is a city of north-eastern France, 98 miles east-northeast of Paris. Its history can be traced back to the Roman Empire. Population (1999): 187,206. Administration Reims is a sous-prefecture of the Marne departement in congress of the sections of the party, which then took the name of the Socialist party of France. Guesde, nevertheless, continued to oppose the opportunist policy of Jean JaurèsJean Leon Jaures ( September 3, 1859 July 31, 1914) was a French Socialist leader. He was one of the first social democrats, differentiating his French Socialist Party from those advocating revolutionary class war and strict communism. He was born at Cast, whom he denounced for supporting one bourgeois party against another. His defence of the principle of freedom of association led him, incongruously enough, to support the religious Congregations against Émile Combesmile Combes ( 1835 1921) was a French statesman. mile Combes was born in Roquecourbe in the Tarn department''. He studied for the priesthood, but abandoned the idea before ordination, and took the diploma of doctor of letters 1800). Then he studied medici.
In August 1914, Guesde was included in the national unity government of René Viviani as a minister without portfolio, and continued to serve in that role until the end of 1916.
Besides his numerous political and socialist pamphlets he published in 1901 two volumes of his speeches in the Chamber of Deputies entitled Quatre ans de lutte de classe 1893-1898.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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