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Ferdinand Lassalle (11 April 1825 – 31 August 1864) was a Prussian - German jurist, philosopher, socialist and politician who is best remembered as the initiator of the social-democratic movement in Germany.
Ferdinand Lassalle (born April 11, 1825, Breslau, Prussia [now Wrocław, Pol.]—died Aug. 31, 1864, near Geneva, Switz.) was a leading spokesman for German socialism, a disciple of Karl Marx (from 1848), and one of the founders of the German labor movement.
Aug 8, 2019 · Learn about the life and works of Ferdinand Lassalle, a socialist leader and founder of the German labor movement. Find out why his books were burned by the Nazis in 1933 and how he differed from Karl Marx.
Ferdinand Lassalle, orig. Ferdinand Lasal, (born April 11, 1825, Breslau, Prussia—died Aug. 31, 1864, near Geneva, Switz.), German socialist, a founder of the German labour movement. He took part in the revolution of 1848–49 and established contact with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
May 18, 2018 · A biography of Ferdinand Lassalle, a German socialist leader who opposed the alliance between workers and liberals and advocated universal male suffrage. Learn about his legal career, his influence on the workers' movement, his controversial views on democracy and cooperatives, and his untimely death.
Lassalle argued that the next step should be to demand universal, equal suffrage for the people. In 1863, he founded the “General German Workers’ Association,” the first significant labor party in Germany, in order to oppose both liberals and old elites.
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Learn about the life and works of Ferdinand Lassalle, a German social theorist and founder of German social democracy. Find entries from various Oxford dictionaries and companions on his philosophy, politics, and literature.
