The Possibilists (French: Possibilistes), also called Broussists (French: Broussistes), were a faction of the French socialist movement led by Paul Brousse. Benoît Malon and others supported the faction although they did not always fully share its inspiring principles. It originated within the "Federation of the Socialist Workers' Party of France" (Fédération du parti des travailleurs socialistes de France), a Marxist-inspired organisation founded by Paul Lafargue, Jules Guesde and others, in Marseilles, in 1879.
Brousse opposed Marxist tactics and proclaimed the reformist principle of directing everyday political activity towards achieving the goals that were concretely 'possible' time by time, while maintaining that socialists should keep always ready to jump at future revolutionary opportunities.[1]
The Possibilists soon won a majority within the Federation, inducing the Marxists to split and found their new French Workers' Party (Parti ouvrier français, POF) in 1882. The Federation was initially renamed the Revolutionary Socialist Workers' Party, and then commonly the Federation of the Socialist Workers of France (Fédération des travailleurs socialistes de France).
In 1902 the small political party of the Possibilists and other groups united in the French Socialist Party, which three years later merged into the French Section of the Workers' International (Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, SFIO).
References
[edit]- ^ Carl Landauer, "The Origin of Socialist Reformism in France"; International Review of Social History, Volume 12 , Issue 1 , April 1967 , pp. 81 - 107.
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