Samuel Bernstein. The Beginnings of Marxian Socialism in France.

CONTENTS

Preface to the second edition

Preface

I – THE LABOR AND SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS IN THE TIME OF THE SECOND EMPIRE; THE COMMUNE

1 – The labor and cooperative movements

2 – Socialism

Blanqui

Proudhon

3 – The International

4 – The Commune

Causes of the revolt of March 18th

The proletarian element in the Commune

The International and the Commune

Marx and the Commune

The effect of the Commune on Blanquism and Proudhonism

II – THE LABOR MOVEMENT AFTER THE COMMUNE, 1871-1878

1 – Public and governmental attitudes toward labor

Fear of the International

Attitudes toward labor combinations; the Child Labor Law of 1874

Attitudes toward social peace: the classical economists; the social catholics; the positivists; the utopians

2 – Labor’s apathy to radicalism

Influence of Barberet

An attempt at federation; governmental interference

Agitation on the question of the Conseils de Prud’hommes

Labor and the cooperative movement; positivist hostility to cooperation

3 – The labor delegations to the Vienna and Philadelphia Expositions

The effect on the organization of syndicats

The reports

4 – Labor and the republic

Labor’s view of the republic

The workers and Gambetta

The radical republicans

5 – The first and second labor congresses: Congress of Paris, 1876; bourgeois opinion of the congress; socialist opinion of the congress; Congress of Lyons, 1878

III – THE COMING OF MARXISM INTO FRANCE

1 – The International in France after the Hague Congress

2 – The French exiles

3 – The Colinsists, forerunners of Marxists in Frances

4 – The introduction of Marxism into France

The aid of capitalist economists

The translation of Capital

The group of students in the Latin Quarter

Jules Guesde and scientific socialism

The International Congress of Ghent

The Egalité; its doctrine

The attempt to organize an international congress at Lyons: Guesde’s defense; the manifesto from Sainte-Pélagie

The Prolétaire

The influence of political and economic events

The slow growth of socialist ranks

5 – The Socialist Labor Congress of Marseilles, 1879

IV – THE PARTY AND ITS PROGRAM

1 – The formation of the party

Independent political action at the Lyons and Marseilles Congresses

Foreign influences

Attitude of the federations

The need of a definite program

2 – The formation of the program

Growing influence of Marx and Marxism

Guesde in London: the drafting of the program

3 – The adoption of the Marxian program

The fight with anarchism

Anarchist doctrines

The regional congress of Paris

4 – The separation from mutualism

Mutualists and radical republicans

The Havre Congresses

Conclusion

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