Antipatriotism Address of Gustave Herve At the Close of His Trial for Anti-Miliaristic Activity, before the Jury of La Siene, December 1905

New York, NY: New York Labor News Company. Good. 1911. Trade Edition. Pamphlet. This is a small format booklet with self covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers have some bumping, rubbing, wear, and at least one tear along with large chips to the back rear corners that has taken off good portions of each. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "In 1901 Gustave Hervé had attained notoriety with an apparent image of the tricolor planted in a dungpile. Soon he forged a prominent antimilitarist movement called Hervéism. When France's socialist parties united in 1905, Hervé led the most extreme faction. Soon Hervéists created a weekly newspaper, La Guerre sociale, which attempted to unite the extreme French left. Before World War I Hervé was one of the most strident voices within both French socialism and the Second International, advocating violent, revolutionary means to prevent war. Six years of sensational and provocative campaigns and organizations failed to implement his ideas. Despite his dedication, the quixotic Hervé grew frustrated due to continuing leftist divisions. His disillusionment was connected to a rather naive reading of the increasingly anachronistic revolutionary tradition. Hervé was quite sincere, yet his romantic and eclectic socialism exhibited atavistic features. By 1914, he rallied to 'la patrie en danger' and in 1916 changed the name of his paper to La Victoire. " (from Wikipedia) .