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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INTRODUCTION. THE PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM. W HEN Louis Reybaud, in 1853, wrote the article in the Dictionnaire de 1 Économie Politiqueos “Socialism” a term to which he first gave currency—he believed that we had heard the last of the disordered hallucinations of Socialists. “ Socialism is dead,” he exclaimed ; “ to speak of it is to pro nounce its funeral oration.” This was, in fact, the general opinion some years ago. Systems of Socialism were then studied only as curious examples of the aberrations of the *^0 human mind. To-day we have fallen into the opposite extreme : we see Socialism everywhere. The red spectre haunts our imagina tions, and we fancy ourselves on the eve of a social cataclysm. What is certain is, that Socialism has recently spread, under various forms, to an extraordinaiy extent In its violent form, it is taking possession of the minds of almost all mining and manufacturing operatives, and at this very moment it is beginning to invade the rural districts. The agrarian move ment which lately agitated Ireland, which has just been suppressed in Andalusia, and which is brewing in other places, IS plainly inspired by socialistic ideas. In scientific garb. Socialism is transforming political economy and is occupying the greater number of professorial chairs in Germany and Italy. Under the form of State Socialism, it sits in the council-chamber of sovereigns ; and finally, under a Christian lorm, It IS making its influence felt in the hearts of the Catholic clergy, and still more in the hearts of the ministers of the different Protestant denominations. b

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