The Le Mouvement socialiste (en

English language

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: The Socialist Movement) was a revolutionary

Revolutionary

A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...

 syndicalist

Syndicalism

Syndicalism is a type of economic system proposed as a replacement for capitalism and an alternative to state socialism, which uses federations of collectivised trade unions or industrial unions...

 journal

Journal

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 in France

France

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 founded in 1899 by Hubert Lagardelle

Hubert Lagardelle

Hubert Lagardelle was a French syndicalist thinker, influenced by Proudhon and Georges Sorel. He gradually moved to the right and served as Minister of Labour in the Vichy regime under Pierre Laval from 1942 to 1943....

 and dissolved in 1914. Other key founders included Karl Marx

Karl Marx

Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...

's grandson Jean Longuet

Jean Longuet

Jean-Laurent-Frederick Longuet was a French socialist and Karl Marx's grandson.Son of Charles and Jenny Longuet. French lawyer and Socialist who in the First World War held a pacifist position but invariably voted for war credits. Founder and editor of the newspaper Le Populaire...

 and Émile Durkheim

Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline and, with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology.Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies could maintain...

's nephew Marcel Mauss

Marcel Mauss

Marcel Mauss was a French sociologist. The nephew of Émile Durkheim, Mauss' academic work traversed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology...

. It advocated segregation of social classes; opposed bourgeois

Bourgeoisie

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 life, democracy

Democracy

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, universal suffrage

Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage consists of the extension of the right to vote to adult citizens as a whole, though it may also mean extending said right to minors and non-citizens...

, and parliamentarism; and supported a society led by "conscious, rebellious" men that would develop a disciplined bold new man

New man

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 as part of a "worker's army". The journal was popular and attracted an international audience in its examination of Marxism

Marxism

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 and revolutionary syndicalism, with well-known revolutionary syndicalists contributing to it, such as Georges Sorel

Georges Sorel

Georges Eugène Sorel was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists. It is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered. Oron J...

 and Victor Griffuelhes

Victor Griffuelhes

Victor Griffuelhes was a French socialist and leader of the General Confederation of Labour in France. He was drawn to anarcho-syndicalism and advocated the establishment of socialism through independent trade union action....

.