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Ferdinand Lassalle
German jurist and socialist (1825–1864) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the 1918 film, see Ferdinand Lassalle (film).
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. "Lassalle was the first man in Germany, the first in Europe, who succeeded in organising a party of socialist action", according to Élie Halévy. Or, as Rosa Luxemburg put it: "what Lassalle managed to wrestle from history in two years of flaming agitation needed many decades to come about".
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Born | Ferdinand Johann Gottlieb Lassal (1825-04-11)11 April 1825 |
Died | 31 August 1864(1864-08-31) (aged 39) |
Resting place | Old Jewish Cemetery, Wrocław |
Nationality | German |
Political party | General German Workers' Association |
Philosophy career | |
Era | 19th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy, German philosophy |
School | Social democracy |
Main interests | Political philosophy, economics, history |
Notable ideas | Iron law of wages, Lassallism |
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As an agitator, he coined the terms night-watchman state and iron law of wages.