Selected Writings of Jean Jaurès : On Socialism, Pacifism and Marxism

This book is an anthology of the writings of Jean Jaurès, a central figure of French socialism in the period leading up to World War I, who was born in 1859 and died in 1914, a few days before the outbreak of the conflict. Jaurès is one of the most celebrated politicians in France. His writings in this anthology touch on the subjects dear to him, which are then some of the great political themes of his time. In this book are writings on war and pacifism, on colonialism and anti-colonialism, and on the central themes of socialism of the time, such as reformism and revolution. Despite Jaurès's notoriety in France, he is not well known abroad. This book, a corpus of his emblematic writings, aims, to make Jaurès known to those who do not know him outside of France. Series Editor’s Preface 6 Titles Published 6 Titles Forthcoming 8 Introduction 11 From the Republic to Socialism 11 Jaurès, the Republicans, the Socialists, and the Syndicalists 13 Jaurès, Germany and Marxism 18 Jaurès, Peace and the World 21 Jaurès’s Legacy 25 Contents 28 1 The Socialist and Republican 30 The Socialism of the French Revolution 30 For Dreyfus 35 “Collectivism and the Peasants” 44 “Jaurès to His Constituents” 48 Secular Education 51 The General Strike and Universal Workers’ Suffrage 61 “No Ambiguity” 65 2 The Champion of French–German Unity 70 German Socialism 70 “The Enduring Problem” 72 “German Controversies” 77 Revolutionary Germany 83 Germany’s Political and Economic Condition 83 The Influence of the Encyclopaedia 83 The Obstacles to Revolutionary Action 85 Revolutionary Germans 86 Reforms 87 “Peace and Socialism” (Berlin Lecture) 88 3 The Philosopher and Historian 95 “Idealism and Materialism in the Conception of History” 95 A Socialist History 110 The Social Balance-Sheet of the Nineteenth Century 118 4 Internationalism, Peace, and the World 126 Capitalism and War 126 For Peace 130 “In the Orient” 135 Aguinaldo and the Philippines 138 Against the Colonial Policy 141 Race War 144 The European Revolution 146 The Renewal Movement in China 149 “Speech by Citizen Jaurès” 150 Turkey and Morocco 152 The New Army 155 Speech on Asian Emancipation 160 Speech on Turkey and China 174 Too Late 177 “On the Need for Sang-Froid” 178 Index 181 This book is an anthology of the writings of Jean Jaurès, a central figure of French socialism in the period leading up to World War I. Born in 1859, and killed in 1914 just a few days before the outbreak of the conflict, Jaurès remains one of the most celebrated politicians in France. His writings in this anthology touch on the subjects most dear to him, which were also some of the great political themes of his time. In this book are writings on war and pacifism, on colonialism and anti-colonialism, and on the central themes of socialism of this era, such as reformism and revolution. Despite Jaurès's notoriety in France, he is not well known abroad. This book, a corpus of his emblematic writings, aims to make Jaurès known to readers outside France unfamiliar with his work. Jean-Numa Ducange is Professor in Contemporary History at the Université de Rouen, France, and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is a specialist in the historiography of the French Revolution, the history of French and German-speaking leftwingers and the history of Marxism. He is co-director of Actuel Marx (PUF). Elisa Marcobelli is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université de Picardie, France, and a Research Associate at the EUROSOC Project at the Université de Rouen, France. Her doctoral thesis concerns French, German and Italian socialists' opposition to the war (1889-1915) and was published in 2020 This book is an anthology of the writings of Jean Jaures, a central figure of French socialism in the period leading up to World War I. Born in 1859, and killed in 1914 just a few days before the outbreak of the conflict, Jaures remains one of the most celebrated politicians in France. His writings in this anthology touch on the subjects most dear to him, which were also some of the great political themes of his time. In this book are writings on war and pacifism, on colonialism and anti-colonialism, and on the central themes of socialism of this era, such as reformism and revolution. Despite Jauress notoriety in France, he is not well known abroad. This book, a corpus of his emblematic writings, aims to make Jaures known to readers outside France unfamiliar with his work