DESLINIÈRES (Lucien) – RECONSTRUCTIVE SOCIALISM, Intensive production, New ed.
DESLINIÈRES (Lucien) – RECONSTRUCTIVE SOCIALISM, Intensive production, New ed.
    DESLINIÈRES (Lucien)
    RECONSTRUCTIVE SOCIALISM, Intensive Production, New ed.
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1927
    octavo, paperback, uncut, (faded copy, fragile paperback, missing part on the spine), 380 p.
    “The life of Lucien Deslinières (1857-1937) is of twofold historiographical interest, both for the study of socialism and for that of the early communists. It spans several eras of the French left. A republican journalist, he embraced socialism at the end of the 19th century. An unorthodox Guesdist, he distinguished himself from the 1900s onward by a frenzy of writing that led him to develop highly detailed societal projects, in the tradition of the utopians. Seduced by the Russian Revolution, he attempted to put his theories into practice in the young Soviet Republic, serving as People's Commissar in Ukraine and then in Turkestan. Upon returning to France, Lucien Deslinières broke with communist circles but found little support within the SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International).” Donning his theoretician's hat once more, he embarked in 1923 on writing a monumental anti-Marxist work, *Le Socialisme reconstructeur* (Reconstructive Socialism), which was met with skepticism and contempt. His trajectory thus intersected with the various tendencies of the French workers' movement, whose evolution he illustrated. Lucien Deslinières, a renowned theorist whose work was prefaced by Jean Jaurès himself at the beginning of the 20th century, gradually found himself relegated to the role of an isolated prophet. Reconstructing his career is possible thanks to the recent opening of several public and private archives in France and the Netherlands. (Fabien Conord, Mathieu Fulla, *Revue historique*, no. 2/2015, p. 353 et seq.).

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