Guesde

American  

[ged] / gɛd /

noun

1. Jules Mathieu Basile, 1845–1922, French socialist leader, editor, and writer.

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Other Word Forms

• Guesdism noun
• Guesdist adjective

Example Sentences

The Polish-German activist Rosa Luxemburg, for example, argued that policies to “reduce capitalist exploitation” were ridiculous, while Jules Guesde, a leading French socialist, insisted that “in multiplying reforms, one only multiplies shams.”

From Washington Post

Next year at the Reims congress the orthodox Marxian programme of Guesde was opposed by the “possibilists,” who rejected the intransigeant attitude of Guesde for the opportunist policy of Beno�t Malon.

From Project Gutenberg

Guesde took his full share in the consequent discussion between the Guesdists, the Blanquists, the possibilists, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

The third section of the Havre Congress contained the majority of the 119 delegates, and they formed themselves into the Socialist Revolutionary Party of France, with the programme already mentioned, which was carried on the motion of M. Jules Guesde.

From Project Gutenberg

At the congress of the party held at St. Etienne two years after this programme was adopted, M. Brousse, a medical practitioner in Paris, and a member of the Town Council, who had already shown signs of disputing the leadership of M. Guesde, carried by a vote of thirty-six to twenty-seven a motion for introducing some modifications, and the minority seceded and set up a separate organization.

From Project Gutenberg