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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CATHOLIC SOCIALISTS. I31 midst of the immoral surroundings of the factory, is to destroy the Christian family. The union of all these measures should constitute the “Labour Code,” just as there is a commercial code, a maritime code, and a civil code. It should regulate the relations between apprentices and masters, manufacturers and workmen. The existing anarchy would then cease. A social order, not exactly identical with that which formerly existed, but based on the same principles, would be re established. Is it to be wondered at, adds the orator, that the demands of the people are sometimes unreasonable, and their accusations often too violent, when we reflect that nothing whatever is done for them ? (2) Like Lassalle, Canon Moufang demands that the State should advance money to working men’s societies. When rich capitalists make a railway, the State often guarantees them interest or subsidizes the undertaking. Why should it not give the same advantages to working men ? They have even a better claim ; for, with them, it is not a question of aggran dizement, but of life. “ I am no partisan of M. Louis Blanc’s Workshops,” said Herr Moufang, “ but when a sound associa tion of working men is in need of aid, I cannot see why the State should refuse to grant it. What is equitable for the rich is equitable for the poor also.” The Canon of Mayence cathedral omits to mention in what respect his associations differ from those of M. Louis Blanc. The difference probably consists in the fact that the associations proposed by the canon would be founded on a ground work of Catholic principles ad niajorafu Dei gloriam. ’ (3) The State ought to reduce the taxes and military burdens which weigh so heavily upon the labourer. The independent gentleman, with thousands in his purse pays Hardly any taxes, while the worker, who has only his scanty J^age, sees it still further reduced by direct and indirect axation, to say nothing of the fact that the best years of his for ^Grvice in the army. Distributive justice calls radical reforms on this point. Militarism is the curse of '-»ermany.

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