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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Tim RISE AND FALL OF THE INTERNATIONAL. 149 to be handed over to national factories. It was, however, added that the transformation of existing society would not take place according to the preconceived ideas of any reformer, but on the initiation of the entire labouring class. The manifesto closed with the appeal : “ Proletarians of all countries, unite ! ” This idea of uniting all associations of working men into one universal interdependent federation has been attributed to a Frenchwoman, Jeanne Derouin. It was decided to call an International Congress of working men at Brussels in the following year; but the revolutionary movements of 1848 and the subsequent reaction prevented this from being done, and the idea remained in abeyance for fourteen years. In 1862 certain manufacturers, such as M. Arlës-Dufour, and certain newspapers, such as Le Temps and L Opinion Nationale., started the idea that it would be a good thing to send delegates from the French working men to the London Exhibition. “The visit to their comrades in England,” said L'Opinion Nationale, “would establish mutual relations in every way advantageous. While they would be able to get an idea of the great artistic and industrial works at the Exhibition, they would at the same time feel more strongly the mutual interests which bind the working men of both countries together; the old leaven of international discord would settle down, and national jealousy would give place to a healthy fraternal emula tion.” The whole programme of the International is summed up in these lines; but the manufacturers little foresaw the manner in which it was going to be carried out Napoleon III. appeared to be very favourable to the sending of the delegates to London. He allowed them to be chosen by universal suffrage among the members of the several trades and, naturally, those who spoke the strongest on the rights of labour were chosen. By the Emperor's orders, their journey was facilitated in every way. At that time Napoleon still dreamed of relying, for the maintenance of his Empire, on the working men and peasants, and of thus coping with the liberal middle classes. At London the English working men gave the most cordial welcome to “ their brothers of France.” On the 5th of August

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