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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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE INTERNATIONAL. 159 Spain, and Switzerland. A full report of the proceedings was published in a Socialist newspaper of Brussels, Ze Peuple Belge. Upon each question on the order of the day, a report was pre sented. The discussions were in general brief and not very animated, and the resolutions drawn up by the central com mittee were carried without modification. It was only on the question of property in land that differences of opinion arose. The first question that occupied the congress was that of war. The incident of the cession of Luxembourg, prevented by the veto of Prussia, and the attitude of the ministers of Napoleon III., caused apprehension of a collision between France and Germany. The formula circulated by the Peace Societies, “ War against war ! ” served as the text of several speeches, in which the French delegates energetically affirmed that the people in France rejected all idea of an attack upon Prussia. On their side, the Germans proposed a resolution that a war between France and Germany would be a civil war for the benefit of Russia.* The congress had even the simplicity to believe that working men could put a stop to any fresh war. T. heir scheme was as follows :—“ The social body cannot live if production cease for a certain time. It would be sufficient, then, for the producers to stop producing to render impossible the enterprises of personal and despotic governments.” Thus when war is threatened, a universal strike is the remedy. Alas *1 It cannot be applied. In existing conditions it is capital and not labour, that commands. If the labourer ceases to work society, it is true, will perish, but the labourer will be the first to die, for he lives from day to day. The idea of a universal strike, which reappears from time to time, is an impossibility. * The preamble of this resolution is worth notine • wmmm.

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