The Socialist Revolutionary Party (french: Parti socialiste révolutionnaire, PSR) was a French
Blanquist
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political party
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founded in 1898 and dissolved in 1901. It is indirectly one of the founding factions of the
French Section of the Workers' International
The French Section of the Workers' International (french: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a political party in France that was founded in 1905 and succeeded in 1969 by the modern-day Socialist Party. The SFIO was found ...
(SFIO), founded in 1905.
The PSR was the new name given, in 1898, to the
Central Revolutionary Committee
The Central Revolutionary Committee (french: Comité révolutionnaire central, CRC) was a French Blanquist political party founded in 1881 and dissolved in 1898.
The CRC was founded by Édouard Vaillant to continue the political struggle of August ...
(CRC), a blanquist party founded in 1881. The CRC had been strengthened by the formation of the
Revolutionary Communist Alliance
The Revolutionary Communist Alliance (french: Alliance communiste révolutionnaire, ACR) or Communist Alliance (french: Alliance communiste, AC) was a French political party founded in 1896 and dissolved in 1901.
The ACR was the name adopted by a ...
(ACR) by dissident members of the reformist
Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party (POSR). Due to the support of the ACR, the PSR became the second largest
Marxist
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political party in France behind the
French Workers' Party
The French Workers' Party (french: Parti Ouvrier Français, POF) was the French socialist party created in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx's son-in-law (famous for having written '' The Right to Be Lazy'', which criticized work ...
.
The PSR was led by
Édouard Vaillant
Marie Édouard Vaillant (26 January 1840 – 18 December 1915) was a French politician.
Born in Vierzon, Cher, son of a lawyer, Édouard Vaillant studied engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, graduating in 1862, and then law ...
, who sought to be the middle ground between moderate socialists (
Jean Jaurès
Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 185931 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (; oc, Joan Jaurés ), was a French Socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became one of the first social demo ...
,
Paul Brousse
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) and Marxists (
Jules Guesde
Jules Bazile, known as Jules Guesde (; 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 ...
,
Paul Lafargue
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). The PSR, however, later merged with the
French Workers' Party
The French Workers' Party (french: Parti Ouvrier Français, POF) was the French socialist party created in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx's son-in-law (famous for having written '' The Right to Be Lazy'', which criticized work ...
(POF) to form the
Socialist Party of France
The Socialist Party (french: Parti socialiste , PS) is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds pro-European views.
The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major p ...
(PSdF). The PSdF was one of the two founding members of the
French Section of the Workers' International
The French Section of the Workers' International (french: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a political party in France that was founded in 1905 and succeeded in 1969 by the modern-day Socialist Party. The SFIO was found ...
(SFIO) in 1905.
Notable members
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Madame Sorgue
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Édouard Vaillant
Marie Édouard Vaillant (26 January 1840 – 18 December 1915) was a French politician.
Born in Vierzon, Cher, son of a lawyer, Édouard Vaillant studied engineering at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, graduating in 1862, and then law ...
See also
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History of the Left in France
The Left in France (french: gauche française) was represented at the beginning of the 20th century by two main political parties, namely the Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party and the French Section of the Workers' International ...
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French Section of the Workers' International
The French Section of the Workers' International (french: Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO) was a political party in France that was founded in 1905 and succeeded in 1969 by the modern-day Socialist Party. The SFIO was found ...
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Socialist Party of France
The Socialist Party (french: Parti socialiste , PS) is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds pro-European views.
The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major p ...
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French Workers' Party
The French Workers' Party (french: Parti Ouvrier Français, POF) was the French socialist party created in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx's son-in-law (famous for having written '' The Right to Be Lazy'', which criticized work ...
Defunct political parties in France
Political parties of the French Third Republic
History of socialism
Socialist parties in France
Second International
1898 establishments in France
Political parties established in 1898
1901 disestablishments in France
Political parties disestablished in 1901
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