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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146 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. CHAPTER IX. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE INTERNATIONAL. W E often speak of the International, and generally with out knowing either its constitution or its history. We fancy that we see the hand of this terrible society in all the acts of violence of Socialism : strikes, insurrections, incendiary fires in our cities, as in Paris; bombs, as at Florence and Pisa; attempts at regicide, as at Berlin, Naples, Madrid, or St. Peters burg. It is the red spectre everywhere present, everywhere threatening, and secretly undermining the fabric of the society in which we live. The International, however, never was a secret society. Its head-quarters were well known. Its pro clamations were signed and published; and, m s ort, it is t e form to which the present Socialistic movement must logically come. Is not everything in our days becoming international Have we not international exhibitions, banks of international credit, international tariffs for the post, the telegrap s, an t e railways, international treaties for the extradition o crimina s, for commercial law, for certain usages of war, for exc ange, and international financial societies without number “Internationalism” is the natural consequence of the grea process of assimilation which is taking place t roug out t e world. Nations are becoming more and more 1 e e^ ot er, and their mutual relations more and more close. e same economic and religious problems, the same commercia an industrial crises, the same class antagonisms, the same strugg es between capitalists and labourers arise in all civilized countries, whether their form of government be republican or monarchica. The “ solidarity” of nations is no longer an empty phrase. So

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