Jules Guesde

Jules Guesde
Born
Jules Bazile

(1845-11-11)11 November 1845
Paris, France
Died28 July 1922(1922-07-28) (aged 76)
Saint-Mandé, France
Political partyFrench Workers' Party
Socialist Party of France
SFIO
Parent(s)François Bazile
Eléonore Guesde
RelativesLilian Constantini[1] (granddaughter)
Dominique Schneidre[1] (great-granddaughter)
Jules Guesde in 1915

Jules Bazile, known as Jules Guesde (French: [ʒyl ɡɛːd]; 11 November 1845 – 28 July 1922) was a French socialist journalist and politician.

Guesde was the inspiration for a famous quotation by Karl Marx. Shortly before Marx died in 1883, he wrote a letter to Guesde and Paul Lafargue, both of whom already claimed to represent "Marxist" principles. Marx accused them of "revolutionary phrase-mongering".[2] This exchange is the source of Marx's remark, reported by Friedrich Engels: "ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas marxiste" ("what is certain is that [if they are Marxists], [then] I myself am not a Marxist").

  1. ^ a b Tami Williams, Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations, Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2014, p. 164 [1]
  2. ^ "Programme of the French Worker's Party". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 2023-04-27.