Jules Bazile, known as Jules Guesde was a French socialist journalist and politician.
10 Facts About Jules Guesde
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Jules Guesde began his career as a clerk in the Interior Ministry.
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Jules Guesde wrote in republican newspapers under the Second Empire and chose "Jules Guesde" as a pen name after his mother's name, Eleonore Guesde.
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Jules Guesde edited at different times Les Droits de l'Homme, Le Cri du peuple, and Le Socialiste, but his best-known organ was the weekly Egalite.
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Jules Guesde, who was in prison at the time, was the author of a resolution moved by the delegates from Paris at the Socialist Workers' Congress and carried by a large majority.
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Jules Guesde had been in close association with Paul Lafargue, and through him with Karl Marx, whose daughter Lafargue had married.
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Jules Guesde took his full share in the consequent discussions between the Guesdists, the Blanquists, the Possibilists, and others.
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Jules Guesde brought forward various proposals in social legislation forming the programme of the Workers' Party, without reference to the divisions among the Socialists, and, on 20 November 1894, succeeded in raising a two days' discussion of the collectivist principle in the Chamber.
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Jules Guesde, nevertheless, continued to oppose the reformist policy of Jean Jaures, whom he denounced for supporting one "bourgeois" party against another.
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Jules Guesde thought that the war would give birth to a social revolution in France and would thus be the starting point of an international revolution.