Excerpt from Studies in Socialism

Jean Jaures is best known to Socialists as the chief exponent in France of the method of reform as opposed to the method of revolution.

In France the question of method has been complicated by the political situation. French Reformists have been led into a particularly close union with the other Republican groups not only because by these tactics they can further the adoption of social reforms, but also because the political situation has demanded such an alliance.

To a French political thinker of the type of Jaures the social and political problems are closely united. He sees but two great parties, the party of the Revolution and the party of the Counter-Revolution. The Revolution, according to this special use of the word, is not a sudden upheaval that took place a hundred years ago, nor is to take place a hundred years hence, but a process of development, begun by those who claimed political rights for all citizens in 1789 and continued by those who have claimed social and economic rights for them ever since.

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