Marceau Pivert (1895—1958) was a French schoolteacher, trade unionist, Socialist militant and journalist. 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Socialism is an ideology of a social and economic system where the means of production are collectively owned and administered by all of society. ...

Active in the Syndicat National des Instituteurs (SNI), a staunch supporter of laïcité and a pacifist after service in World War I, Pivert joined the Socialist Party (PS) and then the SFIO wing under Léon Blum (the section of the Party that had refused in 1920 adherence to the Comintern, as opposed to the new French Communist Party, PCF). Motto of the French republic on the tympanum of a church. ... Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. ... World War I, also known as the First World War, and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice (cessation of hostilities) on November 11, 1918. ... The Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste or PS), founded in 1969, is the main opposition party in France. ... Léon Blum Léon Blum (9 April 1872 - 30 March 1950), French socialist leader and Prime Minister, was born in Paris, into a middle-class Jewish family. ... The Comintern (from Russian Коммунистический Интернационал (Kommunisticheskiy Internatsional) – Communist International), also known as the Third International, was an independent international Communist organization founded in March 1919 by Vladmir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and the Russian Communist Party (bolshevik), which intended to fight by all available means, including armed force, for the overthrow of... During a street protest in 2005 in Paris The French Communist Party (French: Parti communiste français or PCF) is a political party in France which advocates the principles of communism. ...

In the early 1930s, Pivert grouped the most left-wing members of the SFIO in his Gauche Révolutionnaire ("Revolutionary Left") tendency, to which Daniel Guérin was a member, one which opened itself to Trotskyism, initiating entryism as a tactic for the latter. In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... Daniel Guérin (May 19, 1904-April 14, 1988) was a French anarchist and author. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which an organisation encourages members to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits, or take over entirely. ...

In 1936, when Blum formed the Popular Front government, he was pressured by Pivert to reject Capitalism. Witness to the spontaneous strikes around the country, Blum refused to allow for revolutionary conditions to arise. Pivert then wrote his best-known article, published on May 27, headlined Tout est possible! ("Everything Is Possible"), alluding to a social revolution (although never to a socialist one). However, he was contradicted by the communist press organ L'Humanité (the PCF was a backer of the Blum government). The communist editorial read: Non! Tout n'est pas possible! ("No! Not Everything Is Possible!"). In consequence, Pivert cut off links with the government, writing to Blum that "I will not accept capitulation in front of Capitalism and the banks". 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Popular Front was an alliance of left-wing political parties (the Communists, the Socialists and the Radicals), which was in government in France from 1936 to 1938. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Capitalism Capitalism has been defined in various ways. ... The term social revolution may have different connotations depending on the speaker. ... LHumanité (Humanity), formerly the daily newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF), was the only French newspaper owned by a political party. ...

The Gauche Révolutionnaire left the SFIO to establish the Workers and Peasants Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste Ouvrier et Paysan, PSOP), which had a hard time finding a place in-between the Socialists and the Stalinists. In fact, its ideology fluctuated from Marxist orthodoxy to a radical version of Reformism. In 1940, the PSOP was outlawed after the fall of France to Nazi Germany, through the orders of Vichy government leader Philippe Pétain. The Workers and Peasants Socialist Party (Parti socialiste ouvrier et paysan, PSOP) was an ephemeral socialist organisation in France formed in the late 1930s by Marceau Pivert. ... Stalinism is a term used to describe a form of authoritarian communist state, much like the political regime of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Reformism (also called revisionism or revisionist theory) is the belief that gradual changes in a society can ultimately change its fundamental structures. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... In World War II, Battle of France or Case Yellow (Fall Gelb in German) was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed 10 May 1940 which ended the Phony War. ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Presidential flag of Vichy France Vichy France, or the Vichy regime was the de facto French government of 1940-1944 during the Nazi Germany occupation of World War II. Now known in French as the Régime de Vichy or Vichy, during its existence it referred to itself as L... Philippe Pétain Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain, was a French general and war hero, later Head of State of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944. ...

Pivert exiled himself to Mexico, and supported the French Resistance. Returned to France after World War II, he saw the PSOP divided between the wing that joined the PCF (which had aquired prestige after its active contribution to the Resistance), and the one that joined the SFIO - he himself opted for the latter. The French Resistance is the name used for resistance movements that fought military occupation of France by Nazi Germany and the Vichy France undemocratic regime during World War II after the government and the high command of France surrendered in 1940. ... World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a large scale military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. ...

He became more moderate inside the SFIO, and his audience was curtailed. Pivert was regularly elected to the party leadership, but nonetheless stood for Algeria's independance and was hostile to the creation of a European Defence Community (contrary to the party line). He antagonized the SFIO further after taking part in a delegation that visited the Soviet Union, and was voted out of his central position. According to some, Pivert had projected joining the new Parti Socialiste Autonome (PSA) created by Édouard Depreux and Alain Savary, but died before being able to carry out the merger. However, most of his followers in the SFIO entered the PSA later in 1958. The European Defence Community (EDC) was a plan proposed by René Pleven, the French foreign minister at the time, in response to the American call for the rearmament of West Germany. ... Edouard Depreux was a French politician in the 1950s. ...