Lassalle

[ luh-sal; German lah-sahl ]

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Fer·di·nand [fur, -dn-and, fer, -di-nahnt], 1825–64, German socialist and writer.

Lassalle

/ laˈsal /

LassalleFerdinand18251864MGermanPOLITICS: socialistWRITING: writerPOLITICS: politician Ferdinand (ˈfɛrdinant). 1825–64, German socialist and writer: a founder of the first German workers' political party (1863), which later became the Social Democratic Party

He sent for Lassalle, he paid his successors' debts, and generally assisted the sect.

This conception differed widely from the teaching of Ferdinand Lassalle.

But no matter what the cause may have been, to Lassalle there was but one means of solving the labor problem-political action.

Lassalle not only believed in the illusions of Roman jurists, especially of the earlier ones, but he outstripped their fancy.

Lassalle, then, built his agitation on a combination of errors.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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