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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J28 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. Catholic charity has already established countless institutions of every kind : convents, schools, refuges, hospitals, succour for all needs and all infirmities ! To-day it is the labourers to whom aid must come. This is the special mission of Catholicism.” Monseigneur von Ketteler ends his book with the most earnest appeals to the rich manufacturers and nobility. “ For merly it was the nobility who enriched the Church and the monasteries. Nothing now could be more pleasing to God and more conformable to the spirit of Christianity, than to constitute an association which should have for its object the founding of co-operative societies of production in those dis tricts where the condition of the labourers is the worst.” It is evident that the Bishop of Mayence believed, with Lassalle, that to insure the success of co-operative societies, it was suffi cient to advance them funds. Like Prince Bismarck, who has lately acknowledged it in the tribune of the German Parlia ment, Von Ketteler had been completely gained over to this idea by the brilliant Socialist, “ one of the most intelligent and most charming men I ever met,” added the Chancellor, who still has faith in co-operative societies. In a former chapter, when discussing the plans of reform of this seductive agitator, I pointed out the difficulties which this kind of association has to encounter. The French labourers described them accurately in their Congress in Paris in 1876. Such elevated thoughts, uttered by so eminent a prelate, and moreover developed with undeniable eloquence, were bound to produce a profound impression upon the German Catholic clergy. Christian charity, no doubt, prompted thena to receive the new doctrine kindly ; but as they soon preache it to the electors of universal suffrage, it may well be thought that they saw in it the means of gaining allies among the labourers in their struggle against the government 1 he Kulturkampf and the May laws having driven the clergy to extremity, they did not hesitate to hold out a hand to the Socialists. An entire programme of Catholico-Socialist reforms was elaborated. A canon of the cathedral of Mayence, ^ learned priest and a clever orator, the Dom capitular

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