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| {{Infobox politician|name=Ferdinand Lassalle|image_size=200|birth_date=11 April 1825|birth_place=Wrocław, [[Kingdom of Prussia]]|death_date=31 August 1864|death_place=Carouge, [[Switzerland]]|nationality=German|image=Ferdinand Lassalle.png}} | | {{Infobox politician|name=Ferdinand Lassalle|image_size=200|birth_date=11 April 1825|birth_place=Wrocław, [[Kingdom of Prussia]]|death_date=31 August 1864|death_place=Carouge, [[Switzerland]]|nationality=German|image=Ferdinand Lassalle.png}} |
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| '''Ferdinand Lassalle''' (11 April 1825 – 31 August 1864) was a German utopic socialist. He believed that [[Proletariat|workers]] should receive the undiminished product of their [[labour]], while [[Karl Marx|Marx]] believed a sum had to be deducted to support society as a whole and to replace damaged [[means of production]].<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=[[Karl Marx]]|year=1875|title=Critique of the Gotha Programme|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm|chapter=|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm}}</ref> Lassalle also [[Opportunism|opportunistically]] supported Prussian hegemony.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Friedrich Engels]]|year=1865|title=Engels To Marx in London|title-url=https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1865/letters/65_01_27.htm}}</ref> | | '''Ferdinand Lassalle''' (11 April 1825 – 31 August 1864) was a German socialist. He believed that [[Proletariat|workers]] should receive the undiminished product of their [[labour]], while [[Karl Marx|Marx]] believed a sum had to be deducted to support society as a whole and to replace damaged [[means of production]].<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Karl Marx]]|year=1875|title=Critique of the Gotha Programme|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm|chapter=|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/index.htm}}</ref> Lassalle also [[Opportunism|opportunistically]] supported Prussian hegemony.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Friedrich Engels]]|year=1865|title=Engels To Marx in London|title-url=https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1865/letters/65_01_27.htm}}</ref> |
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| == Relations with Marx ==
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| Lassalle befriended [[Karl Marx|Marx]] during the Revolutions of 1848, having met before through the Young-Hegelian circle. Both of which would maintain contact through correspondence until around 1862. [[Karl Marx|Marx]], despite replying to Lassalle's letters in a warm tone, grew to dislike Lassalle overtime, which can be seen in letters he sent to [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]].<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Karl Marx]]|year=1862|title=Marx To Engels In Manchester|title-url=https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1862/letters/62_07_30a.htm}}</ref>
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| == Ideology ==
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| Lassalle, in contrast to [[Karl Marx|Marx]], believed that [[socialism]] could be achieved through the means of parliamentary [[reformism]] such as electoralism along with universal suffrage.<ref name=":1">{{Citation|author=[[Rosa Luxemburg]]|year=1904|title=Lassalle and the Revolution|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1904/03/lassalle.html|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1904/03/lassalle.html}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|author=Eduard Bernstein|title=Ferdinand Lassalle as a Social Reformer|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1893/lassalle/index.htm|chapter=Breach with the Progressist Party – The Open Reply Letter; its political portion.|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1893/lassalle/chap06.htm|mia=https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1893/lassalle/index.htm}}</ref> Lassalle rather than condemning [[private property]] entirely, stated that his "state socialism" ought to merely "fix" the social ill-effects of [[capitalism]] through state control.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Ferdinand Lassalle]]|year=1863|title=Open Letter to the National Labor Association of Germany|title-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lassalle/1863/lassallesopenletter.pdf|pdf=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lassalle/1863/lassallesopenletter.pdf|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/lassalle/1863/lassallesopenletter.pdf}}</ref> Because of this, Lassalle is often praised by [[Social democracy|social democrats]], particularly those of the SPD, the party that he co-founded.
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| == Criticism ==
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| [[Karl Marx|Marx]] criticized Lassalle's beliefs in [[Critique of the Gotha Program|Critique of the Gotha Programme]], describing him as a falsifier who spread [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] phrases in an intentional manner, criticizing his concept of an "iron law of wages", a "free state" and his concept of [[democracy]] being "control by the rule of the people of the toiling people", in which the majority of the "toiling people" in Germany consisted of peasants, not proletarians.<ref name=":0" /> [[Karl Marx|Marx]] was heavily against Lassalle's proposal of improving the current state of things, rather than abolishing it.<ref name=":0" /> [[Rosa Luxemburg]] considered Lassalle an [[Idealism|idealist]] and [[Opportunism|opportunist]] who merely advocated for [[Bourgeoisie|bourgeois]] reforms.<ref name=":1" />
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| == References == | | == References == |
| [[Category:People critiqued by Marx]] | | [[Category:People critiqued by Marx]] |
| [[Category:German communists]] | | [[Category:German communists]] |