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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CONSERVAT/VE SOC/AL/STS. 85 represented by President von Gerlach, who, under the name of Rundschauer (Spectator), treated the social question in the Kreuzzeiiung (Journal of the Cross), the organ of the feudal party. He endeavoured to show that landowners and labourers are alike sacrificed to the errors of economic liberalism and to the art of usury ( Wucherkunst), which characterize our times He wished, above all, to maintain the land system still in vogue in Eastern Prussia, where the peasants live and work as formerly, under the rod of their seigneurs; and he demanded that the artisan class, at once workers and owners of the instruments of their labour, should be protected against the encroachments of the large system of industry, which is dividing the world of production into two distinct and hostile classes, capitalists and wage-earners. One of Marx’s principal arguments consists in showing how competition for low prices brings about the fatal triumph of g eat establishments, which, rising upon the ruins of small manufactures, reconstruct a feudalism of finance and industry a-Ä s,Äx.i r-% but he draws a different conclusion from Marx. The only ' beheve that if it should be necessary to

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