The long life of Jean Jaurès

MrP

Banned
When we think of the Great War and assassination, Franz Ferdinand comes to mind. But aggressive nationalism that drove young men to murder was not confined to the Balkans. In Jean Jaurès we have another victim of the passions of youth. Jaurès was a prominent French socialist and pacifist, murdered by an angry young man before he could organise strikes and other general opposition to the Great War.

He could not have stopped the war (with a 1914 PoD), since Germany planned to invade (which would inflame patriotic French sentiment), and the declaration of war was only three days away when he was killed. Yet I suspect he could have been a great force working for peace during the war, helping to unite the pro-peace forces in France and Germany. But how do you chaps feel he could have influenced WWI, the Stockholm Conference, and post-war France?
 
P, maybe he could force a less harsh Treaty of Versailles on Germany and weaken the ultranationalism in Germany, thus preventing WWII.
But it's also necessary to take into account, if this creates a friendlier environment for Keynes' ideas in a democratic setting (as happened in some countries OTL), throughout Europe, in case a Great Depression arises.
 
Honestly MrP? He'd have been liquidated before he got the chance. Although the French were more "supportive" of agitation, he'd have ended up face down in a ditch. I'm not sure he'd have ever had a long life if realism is a factor in this TL.
 
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