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. 137 action of each group. Local autonomy with unity of action in the interests of the Church, such is the principle. No one of our associations, said the committee, is to imagine that it can bring a ready-made solution of the most difficult problem set before the modern world, or to presume to enjoin upon others, as a Messianic revelation, the particular organization which it may have thought the best. Each Christian Social association ought to be allowed full freedom of action within the sphere which it has chosen for itself It is its business to look after the wants of its members and the local necessities. To impose the same regulations upon all would be to shut out the future, and to cut the roots of all independent growth. These associa tions will not be the instruments which the Church will employ to solve definitely the difficulties in the way of the organization of a better and truly Christian society. When the hour shall have come, the Head of Catholicism will himself designate the ministers into whose hands this duty may be assigned in all confidence. Ihese mptical hopes please the masses. Moreover, it was a splendid idea, and one which certainly cannot injure the influence of the clergy, to entrust to the Pope the economic transformation of society. The holy father is here presented as a new Messiah, who will fulfil the promises of the millennium, by precipitating into the abyss Ricardo, Malthus, “the iron law Ramberger, and the whole of f.iberal “ Manchesterdom," he Catholic Social party succeeded in gaining, all at adherents by adopting Kol- ping s Catholic journeyman clubs " (Katholische Gescllvcreine). of seventy thousand members Peasant clubs (Bauernverein,)

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