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Communard Benoît Malon’s Exile and His Pursuit for the Worker’s Consciousness (1871-1885)

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2021, (45), pp.45~75
  • DOI : 10.51786/RCHF.2021.08.45.45
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : July 31, 2021
  • Accepted : August 12, 2021
  • Published : August 31, 2021

Seo-Kyoung Roe 1

1충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The bloody suppression of Communards executed by the Versailles government at the end of the Commune of 1871 seems productive in the final analysis. The French socialist leaders survived and took refuge sought the unprecedented path to follow. In that sense, the Communard Benoît Malon, in Switzerland for ten years, requires a careful explanation. Contrary to the other socialists' political activity, Malon's contribution was founding a Review after returning to France. However, Malon, born into a poor peasant family, was a proletariat deprived of any intellectual benefit. This article attempts to trace Malon's itinerary with the question why and how he finally decided to build a bridge between labor and intellectual activity. Our work first illuminates the International Workingmen's Association, and after explains his appreciation of the German labor movement leader Ferdinand Lassalle. Finally it investigates Malon's concept and plans for a new workers' party not realized. La Revue Socialiste, launched in 1885 as his conclusion, remains a study to do.

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