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

Who would have suspected in 1904 that Jules Guesde would come to be once more a member of a Ministry, popular in its majority?

From New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? by Various

Guesde and Sembat can certainly do the Government less harm inside the Cabinet than they might do outside of it.

From Paris War Days Diary of an American by Barnard, Charles Inman

In any case, it is becoming clear even to the French unionists that direct action is not and cannot be, as Guesde has pointed out, revolutionary action.

From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert

The word "Collectivism" was used at this period in a sense altogether opposed to that which it now has in the mouths of the French Marxists, like Jules Guesde and his friends.

From Anarchism and Socialism by Plekhanov, Georgii Valentinovich

And while direct action has always been vigorously supported in France both by the intellectuals and by the masses, it is the policy of Guesde and Jaurès which has made headway.

From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert