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. 133 sary laws which determine the sequence of natural phenomena. The consequence is that it is impossible to apply the notion of justice and right to the relations of capital and labour. These relations are, they say, regulated by the fatal law of supply and demand which it is vain to seek to modify. What would be the good of invoking an alleged right which it is absolutely impossible to apply ? Labour is a commodity, the price of which is fixed in the same way as that of all other commodities by the free bargaining of the two parties. Christianity or Catholicism have no more business here than if it was a question of physics or astronomy. This is the way in which Liberal economics come to deny any rights to the workers. The Catholico-Socialist print further accuses Economists of having completely misunderstood the principle of property in deriving it from labour. Property, it asserts, is a principle {moment) which is subordinate to labour neither in its origin nor in its importance. Liberalism has, then, falsified all the bases of a true civilization, labour, property, liberty, right, and justice. The influence of this pernicious doctrine must be broken and annihilated. It leads to revolution. The first thmg to do is to re-establish the corporations, to regulate industry, to fix wages by law, while creating a special macis ^rec^t)^ articles of the “Labour Code” (Arääts- It is easy to understand the success which doctrines of th\. sort must have met with among that portion of the labouring class which was not yet completely won over to the a C religious and atheistic movement preached by the democZL agitators. They were simply the ideas of Marx and Lassalle "we^ed^mh a s^^^(:^h^ic v^nWi,and «mn«:ted bv^ few quotations, with the teachings of the Fathers of the Churrh converted to Socalism, gained the adhesion of two veri numerous classes that the Social Democrats were unable to reach. In the first place, they won over the rural proprietors, and especially the petty aristocracy of the country districts, the squireens, who, not sharing in the growing wealth of

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