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. 169 collectivity, he said, is an unknown abstraction, and yet you seek to impose it on us. The individual is the only concrete thing, and everything inconsistent with his free development IS bad. We find in everybody the wish to be his own master and to enjoy his independence. In attributing all the evils of humanity to the right of property, you are taking effect for cause. Will the collectivity have more intelligence than the individual in directing profitable works? Is it not to individual initiative that all progress is due? M. Tolain was only a “mutualist,” not a “collectivist.” Another Frenchman, named Langlois, a former disciple of Proudhon, and delegate of the metal-turners, while claiming t at rents should belong to the State, uttered some prophetic words: “Socialism will be ruined, through alienating all the country populations, if the decisions taken at Brussels, in their absence and without consulting them, are to be maintained. We shall see once more, as in 1848, the peasants rising in a body against the town labourers and rendering illusory the triumph of the revolution. If you were masters would you be ready to effect any work likely to live ? The State as collective proprietor of the land, would mean a State that would force everybody to work, that would enrol armies of labourers bv squads under the command of engineers and overseers, and that wou d create a hierarchy of forced labour. Is this result so desirable that to attain it we ought to sacrifice liberty ? " from Communism. In.hecZclkt^mSrZ;^;; Pect to the remuneration of labour. Communism desires

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