Finanzwissenschaft

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Identifikator:: 1017727422

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-56103

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Földes, Béla http://d-nb.info/gnd/119338211

Title:: Finanzwissenschaft

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1920

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 686 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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ço THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. SO he averred—a thesis which was perhaps amenable to criticism but not to the penal code. A general assembly of German working men was to take place at Leipsic in 1863. He took the opportunity to expound his views in an “open letter, addressed to the central committee, which was answered in a remarkable manner by Rodbertus-Jagetzow. Soon afterwards he expanded them in an address delivered at one of the sittings of the congress. . . Far from retracting, he emphasized his views still further in two writings which he published relative to the prosecutions directed against him.* His last publication, directed against Herr Schulze-Delitsch,t is the most remarkable he ever wrote. In it he developes his theories more at length than elsewhere, and, at the same time, wields with amazing energy the bitter weapon of irony. Sophistries are not lacking, but they are concealed by the originality of his historical and econotnical views. Proudhon himself never wrote anything more cutbng ; and Lassalle had a far greater knowledge of history and political economy. He was not altogether wrong when he boastingly said “ For every line that I write I am armed with all the science of our times.” Nevertheless, this publication is merely a pamphlet and not a scientific book. His great works on “ Heraclitus ” and on “ Acquired Rights,” however, lead one to believe that he was capable of producing something o durable value, but he had not the time. Lassalle was killed in a duel in the month of August, 1864. Bernhard Becker, formerly one of his disciples, has pubhshe all that is accurately known about this event, and he just y remarks that if Lassalle had lived more in conformity with his democratic doctrines, he would not have ended so like an adventurer. Nearly every year he used to go during the summer to rest and recruit, sometimes to the seaside, some times to Switzerland, and usually accompanied by his faithful friend the Countess of Hatzfeld. In 1863, after having founded the “ General Association of German Working Men, he pro-

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