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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134 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. the large towns, saw, with bitter jealousy, influence and money passing to the large manufacturers, bankers, shareholders, pro moters of joint-stock companies, and all those Stock Exchange speculators who thenceforth, throughout “ industrialized " Germany, began to take the lead. The denunciation of the abuses of capital was much to the taste of this party of “ rurals,” who thus imbibed a sort of reactionary and feudal Socialism. According to them, not a line that Marx had written against capital was too violent. Of course, this “Agrarian” party had no idea of an Agrarian law, unless it could be applied exclusively to the funds of the Stock Exchange and to the Jews, whom they especially detested. The second stratum of adherents to which the Ultramontane Christlich-socialen penetrated was composed of the Catholic peasantry. The generals of the Kulturkampf, who persecuted the priests and the beliefs of the peasants, were Liberals and Economists. The Catholic country folk were therefore pleased to see Liberalism and Political Economy attacked. They found the burdens of taxation and military service overwhelming, and Canon Moufang had inscribed in his programme that they must be largely reduced. As to the “ iron law ” and Ricardo, they probably accepted their bishop’s teaching on trust. We shall now proceed to show that the words of Canon Moufang and Bishop Ketteler have not fallen upon stony places, but, like the seed that fell on good ground, they have brought forth fruit an hundred-fold. We shall principally follow the information collected with extreme care in a book, replete with facts, by Ur. Rudolf Meyer, “ The Struggle for the Emancipation of the Fourth Estate.” * The first reunion of the Ultramontane Socialist, or—as they used to call themselves—Christian Social (Christlich sociale) clubs, took place at Crefeld, in June, 1868. Only three clubs were represented. They adopted as their organ a journal edited with considerable skill by Herr Schings, a clergyman at Aix-la-Chapelle, Die Christlich-sociale Blaetter. By the next year the number of clubs had considerably * Der EmancipcUionskavtpf des Vierten Standes.

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