Author: Malon, Benoît [1841-1893]
Title: Le socialisme intégral [Volume 1]
Description: Paris, Alcan / Revue socialiste, [1890]. 1/4-cloth. 24x14cm, 453 pp. Contemporary binder's half-cloth. Some page browning. The first edition. A small tear to one page margin.. Frontispiece portrait.. Spine label. Rubberstamps to title & flyleaf. Good. ¶ Volume 1 only. A second volume was issued in 1891. ["Benoît Malon was a French Socialist, writer, communard, and political leader...Iinstead of becoming a priest, Malon became interested in radical politics through the writings of P.-J. Proudhon. In 1863 he left the seminary and moved to Paris, where he worked in a factory as a dyer. He became a friend of Zé phyrin Camélinat. Camé linat was a friend of Proudhon and a collaborator of Charles Longuet, Karl Marx' son-in-law. Through Camélinat and Longuet, Malon became involved in the French section of the First International, which he joined in 1865. In the factional struggles within the International, Malon sided with the ' anti- authoritarian' followers of Proudhon and Bakunin, against the Marxists... Malon was among the defendants in the sedition trials of the French Section of the International. He was sentenced to prison both times. With the fall of Napoléon III in 1870, Malon was freed from prison and helped organise relief for the poor during the Prussian siege of Paris. He joined the ' Republican Central Committee', which united Proudhonists with followers of Auguste Blanqui.... When the Paris Commune rose against the Thiers government at Versailles, Malon was elected to the Council of the Commune. He also served on the Committee on Labour and Trade. Malon opposed the Jacobin faction in the Commune, associated with Félix Pyat. Malon voted against the creation of a new Committee of Public Safety. He was horrified by the 'bloody week' when several hostages were shot..." - wikipedia]

Keywords: French Political History, France, Socialism, Socialist, Politics, Paris Commune, First International, ,