Marxism at Work

Ideology, Class and French Socialism During the Third Republic

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Hardcover | 9 November 1992

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Despite a century of debate and criticism, Marxism as a mass ideological practice has remained an elusive topic. This book examines Marxist socialism as a mode of understanding and self-understanding treasured and transmitted by thousands of anonymous militants. It focuses upon the Parti Ouvrier Fran§ais, the 'Guesdists', an archetypal movement of Marxism's 'Golden Age' before the First World War, the period when Marxist socialism evolved from sect to mass movement. Thousands of French socialists adopted Marxism due to the effectiveness of vulgar Guesdist polemic rather than Marx's profound theoretical works, and entire communities were converted to an austere but messianic socialism which still affects French politics today. This book traces the doctrine's birth through conflict with liberals, proto-fascists, and anarchists; its 'making' of a working class, and its attempted seduction of the middle class; and its confusion before the alternative social visions of the Catholic devout, racist nationalists, and feminists.

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'This book is an outstanding piece of scholarship devoted to the ideological rather than the organizational history of the Parti Ouvrier, the French representative of the 'orthodox' Marxism of the Second International ... This is a fascinating and sustained argument, lucidly presented in a nicely produced book.' Political Studies

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Preface
Ideology, history, and the study of Marxism
The Parti Ouvrier Francais: its history and historiography
The axioms of class war
The Making of the French Working Class
The capitalist mode of production and proletarianisation
Problems of proletarianisation
Class and industrial organisation
The bourgeois state versus the proletarian party
Reform and revolution
The Unmaking of the French Working Class
Religion and the class war
Class versus blood and soil
Gender, generations, and class
History and Class Conflict
French Marxism and the bourgeoisie
The Guesdists and the petite bourgeoisie
Marxism and rural society
Marxists encounter the 'new middle class'
The proletarian revolution and the socialist utopia
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
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