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. I4I it depicts the situation. A real understanding is impossible between the Social Democrats, who preach atheism with a view to upsetting the throne, the Church, and all established authority, and the Ultramontane Socialists, who desire to strengthen authority with a view to concentrating it in the hands of the bishops and the Pope. But both parties address themselves to the working men, tell them their grievances, propose remedies for the ills from which they suffer, and put the responsibility for all their wrongs upon the shoulders of the Liberal middle classes, “who exploit the people without pity or mercy.” They are thus found together in opposition and give their votes for each other. The associations created under the influence of Catholic Socialism are veritably innumerable, without, of course, counting convents, which are their ideal type. Dr. Rudolf Meyer has taken a great deal of trouble for the purpose of obtaining, not full statistics, but merely an enumeration of their different species, and he avows that he has found it impossible to draw up a complete list. Nevertheless, his classification, as it stands, is of considerable length. It embraces the following institutions :—Catholic journeyman associations {^Katholische Gesellenvereine) after Kolping’s model. They count more than eighty thousand members, and exist in almost all Catholic towns. Their meetings take place on Sundays, and aim at intellectual and moral culture. They sometimes include savings banks, and, at Berlin, they have founded an academy for the cultivation of taste in artistic manufactures.—Catholic apprentice associations. They are connected with those of the journeymen. They have usually schools on Sundays ; that of Cologne, for example, having more than six hundred pupils. —Catholic associations of master-workmen. For the'purpose of keeping up good feeling, these are pledged to take the sacrament together at least once a month.—Catholic associa tions of factory girls, under the patronage of St. Paul.—Catholic associations of mining operatives. These are very numerous in the coal-basin of the Roer. They usually possess a mutual aid fund. Meetings take place for the discussion of their interests. The object is the cultivation of religious and social

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