Fortschritt und Armut

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Identifikator:: 1027863817

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-43741

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: George, Henry http://d-nb.info/gnd/118716948

Title:: Fortschritt und Armut

Edition:: Sechste, unveränderte Auflage

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1920

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 407 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Buch IX. Die Wirkungen des Heilmittels

Collection:: Economics Books

122 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. the place of healthy emulation, the small crafts are being crushed out, professional work is decaying, wages are being disgrace fully lowered, pauperism is spreading like a hideous leprosy, the oppressed labourer feels his heart swelling with an im placable hatred, and he has no safety but in resistance, no help but in war. Coalitions and strikes take the place of organized labour. Laissez faire, laissez passer ; this is the decree of Liberalism, this is revolutionary liberty ; and it has but one name—the liberty of might.” * These lines seem borrowed from Bishop Ketteler’s own book. The Bishop of Mayence did not conceal his sympathy for Lassalle, at the time even when he was founding and organ izing the Socialist party in Germany. When the Countess Hatzfeld visited him to solicit his aid in removing the obstacles which stood in the way of the marriage of Lassalle, a non- converted Jew, with the daughter of a Bavarian diplomatist who would not hear of it. Bishop Ketteler highly praised the speeches and enterprise of the famous agitator. The social question, said the prelate, is far more serious than these political questions which fill newspapers and parliaments with their endless debates. I'hese latter interest the bourgeois alone ; the other concerns the very existence of the masses. For the working man, the question is to find the means of living. This idea is continually repeated in the German Socialist papers under this “ realistic ” formula : “ The social question is a stomach question ” {^Dic sociale Frage ist cine Magenfrage). Upon what does the condition of the labourer depend ? * As it is important to show to what point the French Ultramontanes use the same language and tactics as the German, we may cite another passage from the speech of Count de Mun ; “ Liberty, gentlemen ! Where is it ? I hear it spoken of on all hands, but what I see is people confis cating it to their own profit. And if I look for it in what touches you most keenly, in what you have most at heart, in this great labour question, which contains all others, and which has given rise to the social as well as the political battle of our days, if I look there for the traces of lil)erty, I discover more than anywhere else this revolutionary counterfeit. I hear the absolute liberty of labour proclaimed as the very principle of the enfranchisement of the people, and, in practice, I see it result in the slavery of the labourers ! Gentlemen, you are artisans and tradesmen ; tell me if I am mistaken ! . . .”

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