Die Entwicklung der Berliner Vorortgemeinde Kleinschönebeck-Fichtenau unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Finanzen

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Identifikator:: 1040326099

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-81250

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Wittstock, Friedrich http://d-nb.info/gnd/1146021178

Title:: Die Entwicklung der Berliner Vorortgemeinde Kleinschönebeck-Fichtenau unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Finanzen

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: A. Deichert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1913

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 155 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Hauptstück. Die allgemeine Entwicklung

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2/2 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. interest ; and that, consequently, it should be subjected to such limitations and forms as the progress of civilization, which is the purpose of its existence, may from time to time require. In short, while the old Economists, starting from certain abstract principles, believed that they could attain, by the deductive method, to conclusions of absolute truth and uni versal application, the Katheder-Socialisten, basing their science on the facts of experience, past and present, draw from them, by the inductive and historical method, only relative solutions which have to be modified according to the state of society to which they are to be applied. The former, convinced that the natural order which presides over physical phenomena must also govern human societies, assert that, when all artificial fetters are removed, there will result, from the free play of inclinations, a harmony of interests, and from the complete enfranchisement of individuals a better social organization, the fullest well-being, and the most equitable distribution of wealth. The latter think, on the contrary, that, in the economic field as amongst animals, in the struggle for existence and in the con flict of selfish interests, the strongest will crush or exploit the weakest, unless the State, as the organ of justice, intervene to secure to each what is his due. They add that the State ought to contribute to the progress of civilization, and to accept, as its chief mission, the amelioration of the moral, intellectual, and material condition of the labouring classes. Finally, instead of declaring, with the orthodox Economists, that unlimited liberty is sufficient to put an end to social conflicts, they assert that a series of reforms and improvements, inspired by sentiments of equity, is indispensable, if we are to escape from civil dissen sions and from the despotism which they inevitably bring in their train. They admit that Socialism has rendered a real service by calling attention to the evils and iniquities of the existing social order, and by awakening in the hearts of all good men the desire to apply a remedy. It is especially in Germany that the new school has developed. The reason is that Political Economy has been there included among the “ cameralistic ” sciences, that is to say, those which have the State for their object. It has, there-

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