The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 835096955

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28834

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Laveleye, Émile de

Title:: The Socialism of to-day

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Field & Tuer

Year of publication:: 1884

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLIV, 331 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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CATHOLIC SOCIALISTS. II7 montanes voted together wherever they were in a minority, and at the second ballot they came to an understanding among themselves to get in that one of the candidates of either party who had received the largest number of votes. The Catholic papers declare openly that rather than come to terms with the Chancellor they will support the most extreme parties, and in the debate upon the Anti-Socialist law the Ultramontane centre declared at the outset that it would not accept it under any form, no matter how amended. Bismarck may well main tain that the alliance of the two Internationals is an accomplished fact ; it is even said that his object in entering upon relations with Rome was to break up their union. In France it would appear that the militant Catholics, the only ones who really constitute a political party, are entering upon the same course. Recently the paper which wields the peatest influence among them, and which is at the same time looked upon with most favour in Rome, published a complete plan of social reforms, destined to put an end to the “ disorder of the existing industrial régime.” The general idea was indi cated in the book of a distinguished Economist, M. Périn,* professor at the Catholic University of Louvain ; but up to this they seem to have conflned themselves to a Platonic aspiration towards a return to the economic institutions of the Middle Ages. Now, on the contrary, the question is to devise a programme of practical reforms which will rally the labouring classes around it. M. Périn and the Count de Mun both said as much, with all the eloquence which the subject inspires at the congress of Catholic labourers lately assembled at Chartres Everywhere, under the most various forms, working men's clubs and associations are founded, where these ideas are made known and spread. As, however, in France, Democratic Socialism hghts in the front rank of the great anti-clerical army. Catholic Socialism can scarcely borrow anything from it, or grant it any mort. But in Germany, where every shade of Socialism bZwIved'' most important evolution may

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