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The State and Socialism & The Materialistic Conception of History
Gabriel Deville (1854-1940) was one of the theoreticians of the French Workers Party, and as such introduced Marxism into France. But you will find out that his writing had a strong anarchist & libertarian edge. This e-book contains 2 of his writings and a short introduction to the author & the French Workers Party, along with an active Table of Contents.
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"...we must work without ceasing to elect more and more socialists to office, to permeate and saturate the State more and more with socialist ideas, until, in the hands of the socialist party or the class-conscious, organized proletariat, the State with all its powers, and especially that of law-making, becomes the instrument, which it is destined to be, of the economic transformation to be accomplished. When that transformation is completely accomplished, there will then be, instead of persons to be constrained, only things to be administered, and on that glorious day there will still be a social organization, but it will no longer be a State.
...we know what the State is. The State, for us socialists, is not any social organization whatsoever. It is, I have said, and I believe I afterward justified the terms of this definition, the public power of coercion created and maintained in human societies by their division into classes, and which, having force at its disposal, makes laws and levies taxes. What should be the attitude of socialists toward the State? This is the question that I am now going to examine and that is easy to answer if we bear in mind that the State, having been created by the division of society into classes, is inevitably maintained by that division."
Additional key anarchist-communist, socialism, capitalists, radicalism, revolution, anti-capitalism, libertarian communism, free socialism, socialists, Marxism, revolutionary, labor movement, anarchy, labor party, left wing politics, no state, capitalism, political history, capital, labor party, worker.
Quotes from the
"...we must work without ceasing to elect more and more socialists to office, to permeate and saturate the State more and more with socialist ideas, until, in the hands of the socialist party or the class-conscious, organized proletariat, the State with all its powers, and especially that of law-making, becomes the instrument, which it is destined to be, of the economic transformation to be accomplished. When that transformation is completely accomplished, there will then be, instead of persons to be constrained, only things to be administered, and on that glorious day there will still be a social organization, but it will no longer be a State.
...we know what the State is. The State, for us socialists, is not any social organization whatsoever. It is, I have said, and I believe I afterward justified the terms of this definition, the public power of coercion created and maintained in human societies by their division into classes, and which, having force at its disposal, makes laws and levies taxes. What should be the attitude of socialists toward the State? This is the question that I am now going to examine and that is easy to answer if we bear in mind that the State, having been created by the division of society into classes, is inevitably maintained by that division."
Additional key anarchist-communist, socialism, capitalists, radicalism, revolution, anti-capitalism, libertarian communism, free socialism, socialists, Marxism, revolutionary, labor movement, anarchy, labor party, left wing politics, no state, capitalism, political history, capital, labor party, worker.
43 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 7, 2015
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About the author
Gabriel Deville
20 books1 followerOne of the theoreticians of the French Workers Party (POF) of Guesde and as such introduced Marxism into France.
Deville joined the First International after the Paris Commune and was a supporter of Marx. He joined with J. Guesde to publish a number of pamphlets. He was a key leader of the French marxist party, the Parti Ouvrier, founded in 1879 and wrote a number of documents while leading the POF, notably an introduction to Marx's Capital.
Deville moved slowly to the right during the 1880s, supporting the entry of Millerand into the bourgeois govt. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies twice, but defeated in 1906, after which he retired from active politics.
Deville joined the First International after the Paris Commune and was a supporter of Marx. He joined with J. Guesde to publish a number of pamphlets. He was a key leader of the French marxist party, the Parti Ouvrier, founded in 1879 and wrote a number of documents while leading the POF, notably an introduction to Marx's Capital.
Deville moved slowly to the right during the 1880s, supporting the entry of Millerand into the bourgeois govt. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies twice, but defeated in 1906, after which he retired from active politics.
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