French Workers' Party emblem, c. 1880

The Parti Ouvrier Français (POF, or French Workers' Party) was the first Marxist party in France, created in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue, Marx's son-in-law (famous for having written The Right to Be Lazy, which criticized labour's alienation). Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A political party is a Political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within Government, usually by participating in electoral The History of France from 1789 to 1914 ( The long 19th century) extends from the French Revolution to World War I and includes Year 1880 ( MDCCCLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Jules Basile Guesde ( November 11, 1845 - July 28, 1922) was a French Socialist journalist and politician Paul Lafargue ( June 16, 1842 – November 26, 1911) was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist The Right To Be Lazy is an essay by Cuban born French revolutionary Marxist Paul Lafargue, written from his prison cell in 1883 Workforce (Voyager episode The workforce is the labour pool in Employment. Marx's theory of alienation ( Entfremdung in German) as expressed in the writings of young Karl Marx, refers to the separation of things that naturally A revolutionary party, it had as aim to abolish capitalism and replace it with a socialist society. Capitalism is the Economic system in which the Means of production are owned by private Persons and operated for Profit and where Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution

The Parti Ouvrier was created in 1882, after the split with Paul Brousse's possibilists, and became the POF in 1893. Paul Brousse ( Montpellier, January 23, 1844 - April 1, 1912) was a French Socialist, leader of the possibilistes The Possibilists was a trend in the French socialist movement led by Paul Brousse, Benoît Malon and others who brought about a split in the French Workers' Party In 1902, it merged with the Blanquist Central Revolutionary Committee to form the Socialist Party of France, and finally merged in 1905 with Jean Jaurès' French Socialist Party to form the SFIO (French Section of the Second International). In Left-wing discourse ' Blanquism' refers to a conception of revolution generally attributed to Louis Auguste Blanqui which holds that socialist revolution should The Socialist Party of France ( Parti socialiste de France) was founded in 1902 during a congress in Commentry, by the merger of the Marxist French Jean Léon Jaurès (full name Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès; 3 September 1859 31 July 1914) was a French The French Socialist Party ( Parti socialiste français) was founded in 1902 The Second International (1889-1916 was an organization of socialist and labour parties formed in Paris on July 14, 1889. Marcel Cachin, who would lead the split in 1920 which led to the creation of the French Communist Party and edited L'Humanité newspaper, became a member of the POF in 1891. The French Communist Party ( French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of L'Humanité ("Humanity" formerly the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF was founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès, a leader of the

The Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Loire and Allier were the principle bastions of POF electoral strength. Nord (North is a department in the far north of France. It is the country's most populated department Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern France. Its name is the French language equivalent of the Strait of Dover, which it borders Loire ( Arpitan: Lêre, Occitan: Léger) is an administrative department in the east-central part of France occupying the Allier ( Occitan: Alèir) is a department in south-central France named after the Allier River.

Principle members

• Jules Guesde (1845-1922), Founding member, elected deputy. Jules Basile Guesde ( November 11, 1845 - July 28, 1922) was a French Socialist journalist and politician Year 1845 ( MDCCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
• Paul Lafargue (1842-1911), son in law of Karl Marx, elected deputy. Paul Lafargue ( June 16, 1842 – November 26, 1911) was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist Year 1842 ( MDCCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year
• Marcel Cachin (1869-1958), member from 1891, led the SFIO Tours split in 1920, future director of L'Humanité. Year 1869 ( MDCCCLXIX) is a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar L'Humanité ("Humanity" formerly the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF was founded in 1904 by Jean Jaurès, a leader of the
• Alexandre Bracke-Desrousseaux (1861-1955), professor (Greek Philosophy), future elected deputy for the SFIO.
• Alexandre Zévaès (1873-1953), elected deputy Isère (1898-1910). Isère ( Arpitan: Isera, Occitan: Isèra) is a department, in the Rhône-Alpes ( Rôno-Arpes in Arpitan
• Bernard Cadenat (1853-1930), shemaker, elected deputy Bouches-du-Rhône (1898-1919 et 1924-1930), Mayor of Marseille (1910-1912). Bouches-du-Rhône ( Occitan: Bocas de Ròse, lit "Mouths of the Rhône River" is a department in the south of France named after the Marseille, ( English alt Marseilles mɑrˈseɪ — French: maʁsɛj locally — Provençal Occitan: Marselha maʀˈsijɔ
• Ulysse Pastre (1864-1930), researcher, elected deputy Gard (1898-1910). Gard ( Occitan: Gard) is a département located in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon region
• Jean-Baptiste Bénézech (1852-1909), printer, elected deputy Hérault (1898-1909), president of the typography workers union. Hérault ( Occitan: Erau) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Hérault river.
• René Chauvin (1860-1936), barber, elected deputy Seine (1893-1898), founder of the coiffeurs workers union. In 1914, he quit the SFIO to found a small workers party promoing a return to class war.
• Hubert Lagardelle (1875-1968), revolutionary syndicalist. Hubert Lagardelle (1874–1958 was a French Syndicalist thinker influenced by Proudhon and Georges Sorel. Anarcho-syndicalism is a branch of Anarchism which focuses on the labour movement.
• Prosper Ferrero, elected deputy for Marseille in 1898-1910, mayor of Toulon (1893), vice-président du conseil général (1914-1915). Toulon ( Provençal Occitan: Tolon in classical norm or Touloun in Mistralian norm is a city in southern France and a large
• Jean Bertrand : elected deputy for Corbeil
• Other elected deputies : Philippe Krauss, Bernard, Dufour, etc.
• Pierre Melin(1863-1929) Lutheran, vice-président of Prud'hommes de Valenciennes, elected deputy. Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther
• Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854-1936) antisemitic antropologist et eugenist, Procureur de la République and professor. Georges Vacher de Lapouge ( 1854 - 1936) was a French Anthropologist and a theoretician of Eugenics and Racialism

Bibliography

French

• WILLARD C. , Le Mouvement socialiste en France, 1893-1905. Les guesdistes, Ed. sociales, 1965.
• VERLHAC J. , La formation de l’unité socialiste (1898-1905), L’Harmattan, 1997 (réed. d'un mémoire paru en 1947).

See also

• SFIO in which the party merged in 1905
• French Third Republic
• France in the nineteenth century
• Socialism and Marxism
• History of the Left in France

External links

• Sur le POF à Reims, un mémoire de maîtrise. The French Third Republic (in French, La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe The History of France from 1789 to 1914 ( The long 19th century) extends from the French Revolution to World War I and includes Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Left in France at the beginning of the 20th century was represented by two main Political parties, the Republican Radical and Radical-Socialist Party
• Programme du Parti ouvrier français (1880)
• Collection of Guesde's writings from marxists.org
• Collection of Paul Lafargue's writings from marxists.org
• Socialist Party of France. 1871-1905 : historique: La marche à l’Unité Les Congrès ouvriers et socialistes (1876-1905), 17 March 2005.