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. 98 of Parliament. The Evangelical Socialist party resembled the French Legitimists, in that they held up to admiration, as the type of government, the reign of Frederick II., and still more that of his father, the brutal churl whom Carlisle admired so excessively, who kept his kingdom and his family under the rod, but who was very pious after his fashion, and an excellent Economist Stöcker founded two associations : first of all, the Central Union for Social Reform,”* and then the “Christian Socia Working Men’s Party.” t Although the same ideas and nearly the same persons had directed the formation of the two groups, their aims were very different The Union for Social Reform was to be composed of well-to-do and educated men, such as ministers of the Church, professors, manufacturers, and land- owners, who would join in seeking for means of conciliating the anarchic classes through reforms inspired by the spirit of Christianity. Hitherto the partisans of corporations, the “ Agrarians,” all who demand protection for national labour, not only were unable to agree so as to combine their efforts, but even opposed and neutralized each other’s action. It was necessary, then, to show how these tendencies harmonize wuth one another, and to point out the superior principle that justifies them and binds them together. What is called cultivated society is so far from compre hending the true mission of Christianity that, when Minister Stöcker first took up the Social question, all the liberal and progressist papers protested against this Mucker-socialismusy this “ sham socialism.” It was therefore imperative to combat the materialism of the upper classes and the atheism of the people, and to renew the religious conception of the world and society. It was necessary, in the first place, for the clergy to extend a helping hand to the labourers, in order to rally them to Christianity, and this was to be the work of the Christian Social Working Men’s Party; while, in the second place,it Vras incumbent on the friends of the people, among the upper ranks, to combine in order to forestall revolution by reforms. * Central Verein für Social-reform. t Christlich-sociale Arbeiterpartei.

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