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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FERDINAND LASSALLE. 67 takes place to-day, only upon a more equitable basis The general welfare would be much greater, not only because distribution would be more equitable, but also because pro duction would be on a much larger scale. One of Lassalle’s disciples, Baron Schweiter, gives the leading principles of the scheme in a small pamphlet published after the death of the master, under the title of “The dead Schulze against the iving Lassalle. ’ * Losses at present arising from works under taken at haphazard, and consequently often useless, would be avoided; efforts which now merely result in ruining com- petitors would then be directed towards ends profitable to all • the labour of workmen would be more productive, because, since the whole product would belong to them, they would try, in emulation with one another, to render it as large as possible; and finally, the idle, not being able to live without work would enter the ranks of the great army of producers, which henceforward would comprise all citizens. Lassalle succeeded in winning over to his ideas two of the ost eminent men, in their different ways, of contemporary ermany—Ketteler, bishop of Mayence, and Prince Bismarck, in the sitting of the of September, 1878, the Imperial Chancellor spoke of his connection with Lassalle ; he said that «e had never met a more agreeable talker, and that he should ^ve been delighted to have him for a neighbour in the country. We appears still to share the faith of the celebrated agitator in eo-operative societies endowed by the State. At this same sitting, he said, “ I did, in fact, consult with cassalle upon the subject of the aid to be given by government o co-operative societies ; and even to-day I cannot think that it ould be a useless thing. I do not know if it was the effect of ssalle’s reasoning or the result of my own experience in t gland, during my sojourn there in 1862, but I have always o ught that by organizing co-operative societies, such as in fh country, a real improvement might be effected . condition of the labourers. I conferred with His the ^ interest in the working classes, and i^mg gave a sum of money large enough to make an experi- * Schulzegegen den lebenden Lassalle.

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