Adéodat Compère-Morel

Adéodat Constant Adolphe Compère-Morel (5 October 1872 – 3 August 1941) was a French Socialist politician, agronomist, orator and writer. Characterized as a Marxist doctrinaire, he was one of the founders of the Socialist Party of France (Parti socialiste de France, PSdF). A gifted propagandist, he was a particular expert on social reform in rural France and became viewed as his party's agrarian specialist. He was an associate of the likes of revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist and literary critic Paul Lafargue and authored many books and papers, several of which were partly written with Lafargue. His best known and most influential work was Encyclopédie socialiste syndicale et coopérative de l'International ouvrière, published in 1912.

Biography Compère-Morel was born at Breteuil, Oise, northern France on 5 October 1872. His father was a gardener. which was followed by the 1905 merger with the French Section of the Workers' International (Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière, SFIO). At the 1920 SFIO Tours Congress, he chose to remain in the ranks of the SFIO rather than leave with other members who went on to found the French Communist Party (Parti communiste français, PCF). After failing three times as parliamentary candidate in his home department, in 1898, 1902, and 1906, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of France representing Gard, département, in April 1909, under the SFIO. He was consistently re-elected until 1936,

"Alcoholism, like clericalism, like militarism, is an effect of the capitalist regime—hence it will all fall with the disappearance of this regime... Transform the social milieu and ensure well-being to all, and alcoholism will disappear.". (A. Compère-Morel) — He died at Sernhac, Gard, in what was then southern Vichy France in the following year. His most significant published works were his encyclopedia and his dictionary. He wrote the sections on Charles Rappoport, Paul-Louis, Hubert Rouger, Jean Longuet, Jean-Baptiste Séverac, Pierre Brizon, and Ernest Poisson. His dictionary, Grand dictionnaire socialiste du mouvement politique et économique national et international, was published in 1924.

Publications

Du Socialisme, par le citoyen Compère-Morel (1894) La vérité aux paysans, par un campagnard with Georges Renard (1897) Les propos d'un rural: Texte imprimé with Paul Lafargue (1905) Concentration capitaliste, organisation collectiviste (1906) L'Exploitation agricole et le socialisme (1907) La Question agraire en France (1908) Les Propos d'un rural (1908) Le socialisme et les paysans (1909) Le vrai socialisme: conférence faite à Lyon, salle Etienne Dollet (1911) Questions d'hier et d'aujourd'hui: le réformisme bourgeois (1911) L'Action syndicale. Discours (1911) Le socialisme aux champs (1912) Le Socialisme chez les travailleurs de la terre (1912) Encyclopédie socialiste syndicale et coopérative de l'International ouvrière with Jean Lorris (1912) Librairie du Parti socialiste (1913) La production agricole pendant la guerre (1918) Le programme socialiste de réformes agraires (1919) Socialisme et Bolchevisme. Pourquoi nous n'avons-pas adhéré à ... (1921) Pour les travailleurs de la terre: discours prononcé à la Chambre (1922) Grand dictionnaire socialiste du mouvement politique et économique national et international (1924) La Civilisation en péril. Le Massacre des hommes with Léon Blum (1930) La Petite propriété paysanne et le socialisme (1931) Jules Guesde: le socialisme fait homme, 1845-1922 (1937) Le Socialisme et la terre (1938) Le socialisme rural