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. 235 garrison allowed itself to be disarmed, and the barracks ^sre set on fire. Meanwhile newly installed republicans governed the Spanish Republic. Castelar, Sunar, Pi y Margall, and Salmerón were in power, but they were denounced as traitors. On the 7th of July there was a general strike in the industrial town of Alcoy. They came to blows. The Alcade and some gendarmes defended themselves for some days in the buildings of the municipality. The insurgents took as hostages some priests and some manufacturers. The Alcade and the gen darmes were made prisoners and then put to death by the crowd, and six public edifices were burnt to the ground. On the 12th of July the great insurrection of Carthagena broke out. The sailors and marines fraternized with the Socialists, and the ironclads fell into their hands. General Contreras put himself at their head and bombarded the town of Almeria. He would probably have got possession of the other seaports, had it not been for the intervention of the foreign fleets. By the 20th of July, the Cantonalists, with whom the gendarmerie and the troops had fraternized, were masters of the province of Castellón. A committee of public safety ruled at Seville. The duration of the working day was limited to eight hours. The relations between masters and workmen were to be regulated on the principle of “absolute liberty. In order to prepare for the “social liquidation," all rents were reduced by one-half, the property of the churches was confis cated, and all pensions were abolished. All closed factories and workshops, as well as all uncultivated lands, were assigned to those who could turn them to account. At Granada the Cantonalists resolved that the churches should be sold, that the bells should be melted and the metal made into coins, and that an overwhelming tax should be levied on the rich. At Carmona there was a battle in the streets which lasted the entire day. Cadiz, Murcia, San Fernando, Valencia, and Salamanca also joined the Cantonalist movement It seemed on the point of being everywhere triumphant; but these revolutionists, who proclaimed anarchy, through anarchy were destined to fall. Amid the general disorganization, the orders of the leaders were not obeyed. The insurgents had no real

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