{"product_id":"marxism-at-work-ideology-class-and-french-socialism-during-the-third-republic-paperback-9780521893053","title":"Marxism at Work; Ideology, Class and French Socialism during the Third Republic (Paperback) 9780521893053","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMarxism at Work\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIdeology, Class and French Socialism during the Third Republic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines the socialists who introduced Marxism to France in the decades before the First World War.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Stuart (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521893053, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 2 May 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e536 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.4 x 3.6 cm, 0.9 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDespite 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 Français, 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ideology, history, and the study of Marxism\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Parti Ouvrier Francais: its history and historiography\u003cbr\u003e 3. The axioms of class war\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Making of the French Working Class: 4. The capitalist mode of production and proletarianisation\u003cbr\u003e 5. Problems of proletarianisation\u003cbr\u003e 6. Class and industrial organisation\u003cbr\u003e 7. The bourgeois state versus the proletarian party\u003cbr\u003e 8. Reform and revolution\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Unmaking of the French Working Class: 9. Religion and the class war\u003cbr\u003e 10. Class versus blood and soil\u003cbr\u003e 11. Gender, generations, and class\u003cbr\u003e Part III. History and Class Conflict: 12. French Marxism and the bourgeoisie\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Guesdists and the petite bourgeoisie\u003cbr\u003e 14. Marxism and rural society\u003cbr\u003e 15. Marxists encounter the 'new middle class'\u003cbr\u003e 16. The proletarian revolution and the socialist utopia\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913162776856,"sku":"9780521893053","price":40.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521893053i_a7eb818e-81df-4292-83f0-6dabefbf4d9e.jpg?v=1691358979","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/marxism-at-work-ideology-class-and-french-socialism-during-the-third-republic-paperback-9780521893053","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}