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Identifikator:: 1887156356

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Author:: Schmoller, Gustav von http://d-nb.info/gnd/118609378

Title:: Grundriß der allgemeinen Volkswirtschaftslehre

Place of publication:: Berlin [u.a.]

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot

Year of publication:: 1900-

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Identifikator:: 1887256288

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-242253

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Author:: Schmoller, Gustav von http://d-nb.info/gnd/118609378

Title:: Verkehr, Handel und Geldwesen. Wert und Preis. Kapital und Arbeit. Einkommen. Krisen, Klassenkämpfe, Handelspolitik. Historische Gesamtentwickelung

Volume count:: 2.1904

Place of publication:: Berlin [u.a.]

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot

Year of publication:: 1904

Scope:: X, 719 S.

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Title:: Viertes Buch. Die Entwickelung des volkswirtschaftlichen lebens im ganzen

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201 BAKUNIN THE APOSTLE OF NIHILISM. organization. The third section embraced all the simple adherents who enrolled themselves in local Socialist associa tions, figured in the congresses, and constituted the grand army of the insurrection. The Alliance starts from the idea “that revolutions are made neither by individuals nor by secret societies. They come, as it were, of themselves, produced by the movement of ideas and events. All that a secret society can do is to spread among the masses ideas which may instigate them to revolution, and a,fterwards to constitute a revolutionary directorate, capable of guiding the insurrection when it breaks out. For the inter national organization of the Revolution, a hundred devoted and closely united men are sufficient.” By a flagrant inconsistency, Bakunin, who preached anarchy and who rebelled against Marx and his General Council, because they arrogated to themselves too much authority, here returns to the ideas of Mazzini, and creates a highly centralized organization, on the model of the Society of the Jesuits, having, like it, the hilt of the sword in the hands of one man and the point everywhere. All appoint ments and all initiatives were to come from the head centre. The International aimed at the raising of wages and social reform by means of discussion, propaganda, the press, in a word, by means of publicity. Bakunin, on the contrary, returned to the old methods of conspiracy. This system may succeed in a country despotically governed, where the object is to substitute a better political régime ; but in free countries, which, like Switzerland and France, govern themselves and where it only remains to introduce economic reforms, who is to be over thrown? Is it those chosen by universal suffrage? In place of anarchism, then, it is a dictatorship that you are going to establish. You may have discovered the most perfect social system, for example, absolute amorphism and unlimited col lectivism, yet you would not be able to establish it or make it work, if the masses who are to practise it have not even an Idea of It. A dictator, were he all-powerful, would lose his labour. of the Alliance is no other than that of Nihilism. “ The Association of the International brothers,” it

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