University Presses Paul Lafargue & The Flowering

Paul Lafargue, the disciple and son-in-law of Karl Marx, helped to found the first French Marxist party in 1882, and over the next three decades, served as its chief theoretician and propagandist. In an earlier volume, "Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882," Leslie Derfler emphasized family identity and the origin of French Marxism. Here, he explores Lafargue's political strategies as well as his pioneering attempts to apply Marxist methods of analysis to anthropology, aesthetics, and literary criticism.