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 SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. 178 credit, free, secular, and compulsory education, the right of public meeting, freedom of association, liberty of the press, and the organization of public services by municipal authority. The general council, in its proclamation of the pth of Sep tember, 1870, urgently advised the labourers to respect the government which had been established, in order to save at least the republic and liberty. “ The situation of the French labourers,” it is there stated, “ is most difficult ; any attempt to overthrow the present government, in the middle of this terrible crisis, and while the enemy is at the gates of Paris, would be a detestable piece of folly.” Marx did not believe in the triumph of the Commune, and he said as much in his letters to his French friends. On account of this, the more violent roundly accused the “German Jew” of having sold himself to Bismarck. About this time, Becker, a friend of Marx, wrote the following “ The organization of the prole tariat' is not sufficiently complete, and the principles of the Socialist democracy are not sufficiently spread and understood to enable a red republic to be firmly established. The radical transformation of the old society and the inauguration of a new historic epoch require time; it will be the work of successive generations.” After the fall of the Commune several branches of the International, and even the general council in London, sent forth manifestoes attesting their sympathy and admiration for “the glorious vanquished.” The address of the general council, published on the 30th of May, under the title U Guerre civile en France, is a long statement of the facts which brought about the revolution of the i8th of March. It is n curious apology. What the Commune wanted, it said, vs as to establish a government founded on truly democratic and above all economic principles, by restoring to municipal authority the too numerous functions exercised to-day by the State. We are, then, asked to believe that it was simply a question of imitating the system at work in the United States and in Switzerland. If public monuments were burned, it was as a means of defence, just as is done in all wars. The absolute incapacity of the Commune in the matter of socia

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