The Parti Ouvrier Français (POF, or French Workers' Party) was the first Marxist party in France, created in 1880 by Jules Guesde and Paul Lafargue, Marx's son-in-law (famous for having written The Right to Be Lazy, which criticized labour's alienation). A revolutionary party, it had as aim to abolish capitalism and replace it with a socialist society. Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Jules Basile Guesde (November 11, 1845 - July 28, 1922) was a French socialist politician. ... Paul Lafargue Paul Lafargue (1842-1911) was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, political writer and activist; he was Karl Marxs son-in-law, having married his second daughter Laura. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. ... The Right To Be Lazy is a book by Cuban-born French Anarcho-Marxist Paul Lafargue, written from his prison cell in 1883. ... Labour (Commonwealth English) or labor (American English) may refer to one of the following. ... Alienation is a process whereby people come to be estranged from the society around them. ... For other uses, see Capitalism (disambiguation). ... Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ...

The Parti Ouvrier was created in 1882, after the split with Paul Brousse's possibilists, and became the POF in 1893. In 1902, it merged with others socialist parties to form the Parti socialiste de France, and finally merged in 1905 with Jean Jaurès' Parti socialiste français to form the SFIO (French Section of the Second International). Marcel Cachin, who would lead the split in 1920 which led to the creation of the French Communist Party and edited L'Humanité newspaper, became a member of the POF in 1891. Jean Jaurès Jean Léon Jaurès—full name Auguste-Marie-Joseph-Jean-Léon Jaurès—(September 3, 1859 – July 31, 1914) was a French Socialist leader. ... Sfio, or Safe/Fast I/O, is an I/O library developed by AT&T Research, with several improvements over the ANSI C stdio library. ... The phrase Second International has two meanings: For the international association of socialist parties of the late 19th century, see Second International (politics) and a successor organization, the Socialist International For one of the Merriam-Webster dictionaries of American English, see Websters New International Dictionary, Second Edition This is... The French Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. ... LHumanité (Humanity), formerly the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF), was the only French newspaper owned by a political party. ...

See also

• SFIO in which the party merged in 1905
• French Third Republic
• France in the nineteenth century
• Socialism and Marxism