Jules Guesde

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Jules Guesde
Born	Jules Bazile (1845-11-11)11 November 1845 Paris, France
Died	28 July 1922(1922-07-28) (aged 76) Saint-Mandé, France
Political party	French Workers' Party Socialist Party of France SFIO
Parent(s)	François Bazile Eléonore Guesde
Relatives	Lilian Constantini[1] (granddaughter) Dominique Schneidre[1] (great-granddaughter)

Jules Bazile, known as Jules Guesde (French: [ʒyl ɡɛːd]; 11 November 1845 – 28 July 1922) was a French socialist journalist and politician.

Guesde was the inspiration for a famous quotation by Karl Marx. Shortly before Marx died in 1883, he wrote a letter to Guesde and Paul Lafargue, both of whom already claimed to represent "Marxist" principles. Marx accused them of "revolutionary phrase-mongering".^[2] This exchange is the source of Marx's remark, reported by Friedrich Engels: "ce qu'il y a de certain c'est que moi, je ne suis pas marxiste" ("what is certain is that [if they are Marxists], [then] I myself am not a Marxist").