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,
“... was far too small (four hundred delegates nevertheless squeezed in, Keir Hardie, Eleanor Marx and William Morris among them). The translating was shambolic, the resolutions so badly drafted that there was a tremendous row when it came to settling on 1 May as International Workers’ Day. Yet at the end there was a tremendous cheer for the symbolic ... ”