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. I6s In Italy, too, the reform is half accomplished ; for the State, the Provinces, and the Commune levy, by way of taxes, thirty, forty, and even fifty per cent, of the land revenue. It is, therefore, the same as if they had got possession of half the property , Is the tiller of the soil in these countries any the happier ? No ; the poverty of the rural districts is extreme. To give the ownership of land to the State would simply be to impose a single tax, as was formerly advocated by the Physiocrats and recently by MM. de Girardin and Menier. The general character of our societies would not be in the least modified, ent, consumed to-day by landowners, would then be swal- officials. This is precisely what the Proudhonian Anarchists, the desperate opponents of the State-Divinity,” fought against. They, accordingly, proposed to entrust the land to rural associations. But here also experience, that supreme authority which the Sociologists always quote, gives serious warnings on the subject of “ the natural laws of social evolution.” The system of which the International Anarchists dream is not a Utopia. It was formerly general in France, and it still exists to-day with the Slavs of the Danube and of the Balkans. There the land is worked and owned by autonomous associations, which are very justly termed by Austrian writers Hauscommuniomn, “House or Family Communities.” When I visited the zadrugas of Servia and Croatia, I too, like M I e Plav and like the great apostle of Danubian Slavism, Monseigneur Strossmayer, was beguiled by the charms of this rural life so group, men and women, working in common in the fields or preparing the hemp and the wool for their clothes, in the ¡ate evening, the nausic of tl^¿7»iA, acconqxmymgthe song of the Servian romancero, one might fancy one's self transported among the nymphs and swains of the Golden Age* “Natural Evolution,” however, is undermining these fraternal insti-

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