The Impact of the Boulangist Crisis upon the Guesdist Party at Bordeaux
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick H Hutton (0009-0006-5768-8725, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 226-226 |
| Publication date | 1971-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/285984 |
| OpenAlex | W2316501006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The impact of the Boulangist crisis upon the development of the Guesdist party (Parti ouvrier) has never received enthusiastic attention from students of French Marxism. That attitude is not altogether surprising. The official position of the party upon General Georges Boulanger and his cause was one of hostile neutrality if not of outright opposition. Between cholera and the plague, one does not choose, was Jules Guesde's unequivocal verdict upon the Boulangists and their adversaries, and most of his followers obediently subscribed to that judgment.' Those Socialists (mostly Blanquists) who joined the Boulangist electoral campaign were written off as befuddled compromisers or as demagogues who put ambition before principle.2 After the Boulangist movement suffered defeat in the legislative elections of 1889 it was possible for Guesdist leaders to dismiss it as a bizarre variant of bourgeois politics. But that posture was difficult to maintain at the level of practical politics during the heyday of Boulanger's popularity.3 For it was precisely at this time that the Guesdists were making their first bid for an effective role in French politics, and, theoretically at least, their recruiting efforts were directed at the industrial labor force. Because of the appeal of Boulangism in that quarter the Guesdists had been unable to dismiss the movement in cavalier fashion. While the Parti ouvrier remained a tiny, quarrel
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| Citations per year | 0.04 |
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| Citation span | 1975 - 2005 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |