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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BAKUNIN THE APOSTLE OF NIHILISM. 20/ or demur.” Four of the young men initiated received orders to enlist fresh adherents and to form each a small independent section. Among them was a student of the Academy of Agri culture, named Ivanoff, who was devoting himself to works of charity with the exaltation of a saint He was much esteemed by his fellow-students and had great influence among them. He had organized aid funds for poor students ; he used to devote all his spare time to teaching the children of the peasants, and he habitually stinted himself in order to give to others. He believed, however, that individual beneficence could only assist a few unfortunates, and that nothing but a social revolution could put an end to the misery that exists. Netchaieff and Ivanoff did not long pull together. Netchaieff had some revolutionary proclamations posted up in the cheap boarding-houses that Ivanoff had organized for poor students. These were in consequence shut up, and the managers sent into exile. Ivanoff was much distressed at this, and announced his intention of quitting the Association. Then, in fear lest he should betray the secret, Netchaieff and two other members, Pryoff and Nicolaieff, though hitherto friends of Ivanoff, enticed him one evening into a quiet garden, under pretext of digging up a secret press, and then they shot him dead with a revolver and threw his body into a pond. To take another instance of a similar nature. The Congress of the International, which was going to unite at the Hague in 1872, wished, under the inspiration of Marx, to exclude Baku nin, and in order to convict him of having founded a secret society with statutes contrary to those of the International a Russian exile, Utin, was commissioned to draw up a report on the Netchaieff affair. Utin, in order to perform his task took up his abode at¿Zurich. One evening, as he was walking about near the lake, he was attacked by eight persons who spoke the Slav language. These men, after having, as they believed, beaten him to death, were going to throw him into the water, when he was rescued by the arrival of some students of the University. We may therefore conclude, not only from the statutes of the Alliance, but from its acts, that it does not shrink from the assassination of its members.

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