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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THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. 84 of his correspondence with L#assalle, published by A. W agner, he shows in what respect he may be called conservative. “ Our ways of understanding law and the philosophy of history, he writes, in speaking of Lassalle, “ were similar, in that we did not consider the succession of social and political forms as exhausted by the establishment of the constitutional or the representative system. We were both convinced that, by placing ourselves at the point of view of a philosophy of law more ideal and rigorous than that received to-day, we should observe imperfections in property as at present applied to land and capital, and we should discern a form of appropriation purer and more equitable, by virtue of which the share of each would be proportional to services rendered. In practice we were unable to agree," adds Rodbertus. Lassalle, as we know, wished to change the condition of working men in a short time, by making them join associations of production, founded by means of State aid. I wished to preserve the principle of wages, while supposing a reform to be undertaken by the State. Lassalle wished to make a political party out of the Socialist party, and for this purpose he demanded universal suffrage. I wished to confine its action to the purely scientific and economic ground.” Lassalle was an ardent agitator who believed the goal would soon be reached, while Rodbertus understood so well the slowness of social transformations, that it was only after the lapse of five centuries that he looked for the realization of his ideal—property in proportion to labour. Rodbertus approached the present “ Agrarian ” party in that he defended energetically the agricultural interests, which he maintained were sacrificed to the financiers. As he himself farmed his property at Jagetzow, he, like Von Thuenen, understood thoroughly all questions relating to rural economy, but, unlike the “ Agrarians,” he did not hope to re-establish the régime of times past. The most retrograde shade of Conservative Socialism was * Briefe von Ferdinand Lassalle an Karl Kodberíus-Jagetzow mit einer FinUitunz von Adolph Wagner. Berlin, 1870 (Letters of F. Lassalle to K Rodbertus-Jagetzow, with an introduction by Adolph Wagner).

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