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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142 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. sentiments.—Peasant associations. They are divided into two principal groups : that of Bavaria, whose organ is the Bauernzeitung, and that of Westphalia, whose paper is called the Westfalischer Bauer. The Bavarian group must count twenty thousand members. In the reunion of the Westphalian group, held during the summer of 1878, under the presidency of Baron von Schorlemer-Alst, the total of twelve thousand members was reached, including two thousand adhesions obtained that year.—Christian Social associations. They receive members from all classes, as their object is simply to discuss the social question and to propagate the movement. They have spread everywhere, and the number of their members is very large.—Catholic aid-associations for working men. They make loans without interest.—Catholic associations for maidservants and workwomen. — Catholic savings and credit associations, under the patronage of St. Joseph or St. Boniface, framed on the model of those of Herr Schulze- Delitzsch.—Working men’s associations for production. These are not numerous.—Associations for diffusing literature on the social question from the Catholic point of view.—Building societies.—Catholic associations for the wives and daughters of working men, etc., etc. The whole movement is represented by a great number of newspapers. The two best and most influential are, for Northern Germany, the Christlich-Sociale Blaetter, published at Aix-la-Chapelle under the management of Herr Sellings; and for Southern Germany, the Arbeiter- Freund, which appears at Munich under the direction of Herr Schimpf. If we enter into somewhat minute details, it is to show the power of the Catholic Socialists. The strength of this party in the Imperial Parliament increases at each election, and it has become one of the principal factors of German politics, the effects of which are felt throughout Europe. Its influence will enable us to understand better why Prince Bismarck, if he has not yet “gone to Canossa,” has at any rate permitted the Pope’s nuncio to come to Kissingen. The alliance of Democratic and Catholic Socialism is evidently the principal danger that threatens the whole work of the chan-

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