The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 1768152721

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-148079

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: 10 Jahre Wiederaufbau

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Wirtschaftszeitungs-Verlags-Ges. M.B.H.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: 664 S.; Ill.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Oberösterreich

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132 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. (4) Finally, the State ought to place restrictions on the tyranny of capital. I attack neither wealth nor the wealthy, says the canon, for Holy Scripture says wealth and poverty come from God; but what I condemn is the methods by which these owners of thousands and millions enrich them selves to-day. Whence come these tens of thousands so rapidly acquired by those who toil not ? They are deducted from the produce of the labour of the workers, who have to pay the incomes of these huge fortunes obtained originally by gambling on the Stock Exchange or by dishonest speculations. In thus speaking. Canon Moufang was plainly inspired and embittered by reminiscences of the Schwindeljahre, the years of mad speculation which followed 1871 ; but in this case, too, it would have been well if he had not confined himself to eloquent tirades against “the tyranny of capital,” but had indicated the means of putting an end to these iniquities. Such is the programme of the reforms which the Canon of Mayence calls for from the State. It hardly differs from that formulated by the Socialists, except that Herr Moufang more often invokes the Holy Scriptures. He is quite right to praise the Christian ideal. But what is to be done if the co-operative societies consume the capital advanced to them, and if the manufacturers cease producing when they are unable to meet the wages imposed ? The reforming canon does not concern himself with these details. A paper founded under the inspiration of Herr Moufang, Die Christlich-sociale Blaetter, has developed this programme more exclusively on the economical side. Like the Socialists, it vehemently attacks the Political Economy of the Manchester School, Das Manchesterthum. We must have done with these economical theories, says the Catholic journal, which exercise so grievous an influence on the public and private life of our times. These “ Manchestrists ” classify labour, the principal factor of civilization, under the same head as the natural agents. According to them, it is only a manifestation of the powers inherent in matter, like the attraction or gravitation of bodies. They speak of the laws which regulate the production and the distribution of wealth in the same way as of the neces-

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