Lucien Deslinières (1857 in

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– 1937 in Vernouillet) was a French journalist, writer and socialist. Deslinières joined the Parti Ouvrier Français (POF) in 1891. He later tried unsuccessfully to establish a collectivist settlement in

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. After the

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, he travelled to the

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, becoming an agricultural commissar in

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in 1920. Civil war and shortage of money blocking his schemes of

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, he returned to France.Benjamin Guichard
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, 2011

Works

* ''L'application du système collectiviste'', 1899 * ''Projet de code socialiste'', 1908 * ''Le Maroc socialiste'', 1912 * ''Comment se réalisera le socialisme'', 1919. Translated by Eden and

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as ''The coming of socialism'' * ''La France nord-africaine; étude critique de la colonisation anarchique pratiquée jusqu'à ce jour. Projet de colonisation organisée'', 1920 * ''Délivrons-nous du Marxisme'', 1923 * ''La production intensive'', 1923 * ''Principes d'économie socialiste'', 1924 * ''Dans l'ornière marxiste, en France, en Russie : pour en sortir'', 1927

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