War on God! That is Progress!
Susan Watkins: Paul Lafargue and French socialism, 13 May 1999
Paul Lafargue and the Flowering of French Socialism, 1882-1911
by Leslie Derfler.
Harvard, 382 pp., £27.95, July 1998,0 674 65912 0 Show More
by Leslie Derfler.
Harvard, 382 pp., £27.95, July 1998,
“... set himself up, in Marx’s sardonic description, as ‘an oracle of socialisme scientifique’. Leslie Derfler’s biography, diligently researched in four languages although occasionally faltering in the narration, elucidates his role in the founding of the POF (an earlier volume covered the first forty years of Lafargue’s life).* During the 1880s ... ”
