Budgets and visible commercial balances of European countries 1922-1925

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Identifikator:: 1744852030

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-117951

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Budgets and visible commercial balances of European countries 1922-1925

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Reference Service on International Affairs

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: 39 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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126 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. man and denounces the rich idler. There is, therefore, no more solid foundation for the demand of reforms on behalf of the disinherited classes. And yet Social Democracy repudiates it, and tries to crush it, because, by opening up the prospect of a future life, it tends to make men resigned to the ills of the present one. No doctrine is more calculated than atheistic materialism, to in flame the hearts of working men with rage and hatred against the system of society which determines their present con dition, and therefore it is that the apostles of anarchical revolution adopt and propagate it as their gospel. Accord ingly, in Russia, we see that Atheism gives birth to Nihilism, which arms itself with the dagger, and avails itself of incen diarism, and all those perfected means of destruction that science invents. So long as his object is merely to show the beneficent in fluence which the application of Christian principles to social problems would effect, the Bishop of Mayence writes pages of eloquence and pathos. But as soon as he is obliged to come down to the lower regions of Political Economy, and point out the practical means of improving the condition of the working men, he becomes involved in difficulties. He even has to borrow from Lassalle the idea of productive co-operative asso ciations, by means of which that Socialist agitator promised to effect a complete transformation of the social organism. The danger of the actual situation comes from the antago nism between capital and labour. But if the same individual is at once capitalist and labourer, harmony is established. If the present wage-earner could but own a part of the mill, the farm, the railway, or the mine, where he is employed, he would receive a share of the profits, over and above his wages. The war between classes would cease, because there would be only one class, every capitalist working, and every working man possessing capital. The ultimate object, therefore, is to collect all the instruments of production in the hands of co-operative societies, in order to establish, in the great industries of modern times, organization of labour, similar to that of the trade-guilds of the Middle Ages. To attain this object, the Bishop of

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