X-Nico

Victor Jaclard

Other Blanquists initially remained aloof from the organisation because it French section was dominated by followers of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, whom they considered insufficiently revolutionary.

•

While republicans like Clemenceau were shedding whatever socialist sympathies they may once have had and moving into positions of power in the Third Republic, the French Blanquists and Marxists firmly opposed socialist participation in 'bourgeois' republican governments and furiously denounced reformist socialists like Alexandre Millerand who sought power.

see also