The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 1752429486

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XXXI.To Francis Maseres

Collection:: Economics Books

the rise and fall of the internat/onal. 153 delegates from the Continent brought discouraging news. Except in Switzerland, adhesions were rare. The Belgian delegates complained of the apathy of their countrymen ; the French, of the vexatious.interference of the police ; the Italians, of the hostility of Mazzini’s followers. It was determined to hold a General Congress next year at Geneva. The first sitting did, in fact, take place on the 3rd of Sep tember, 1866, at Geneva, under the presidency of Jung, who represented the General Council. There were in all only sixty delegates, seventeen of whom were French. Besides Jung, the General Council had sent Odger, Cremer, Eccarius, and arter. 1 he statutes drawn up in London under the inspira tion of Marx were adopted almost without change. They were very skilfully conceived. They presented a well-planned application of the federal system and of voting by several stages. Local initiative was respected, while the central authority, emanating from the several federated groups, was to direct the whole. These statutes were framed so as not to alarm Governments and to avoid the risk of suppression by the law. The association is founded, says the first article, to provide a centre of communication and co-operation between working men of difierent countries who have the same end in view, namely, “ the joint action, the advancement, and the complete emancipation of the working class.” The Association, and all societies and individuals joining it,"recognize truth, justice, and morality as the basis of their conduct, and take for their motto “No duties without rights and no rights without duties.” These were golden words. How could the tribunals think for a moment of prosecuting such an association ? The unit of the Association is the section. A section is composed of the working men of a particular locality or trade who become members and unite in order to study and defend their common interests. All the sections of a region are grouped so as to form a federation. Lastly, the statutes say, “as the utility of the General Council will be the greater in proportion as its action is less diffused, the members of the International Association ought to make every effort to estab-

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