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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i8o THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. different nationalities and influenced by divergent currents of thought. The signal for revolt was hoisted at Neuchâtel. Certain sections of working men at Lode and at Chaux-de- Fonds, under the direction of an active leader, James Guil laume, revolted against the excessive authority claimed by the general council, and, separating themselves from the other groups of French-speaking Switzerland, established the Federation of the Jura. They were called Federalists or Autonomists. The Blanquists, representing the Jacobin tradition, also rose very vehemently against “the German Jew’s theory of historic evolution.” Lastly, the most ardent in their opposition were the Anarchists who followed Bakunin. At the Congress of the Peace League, which met at Berne in 1869, under the presidency of Victor Hugo, Bakunin had proposed a vote approving of atheism and communism. Beaten by a large majority, he then founded the “ Alliance of the Social Demo cracy.” On the other hand, the general council forbade the sections of the International to take any particular name, and reserved to itself the right of suspending or dissolving any sections disobeying this order. The Congress of the Hague (from the 2nd to the 7th ot September, 1872) was the battle-field where these opposing tendencies clashed together. There were sixty-five delegates, of whom four represented Holland, eight Belgium, two Denmark, eight Germany, seven Switzerland, eleven France, four Spain, one Portugal, one Hungary, ten England, one Ireland, six America, and one Australia. The fight arose on the question of the powers of the general council, the Autonomists wishing to reduce it to a mere committee 0 inquiry. Guillaume attacked Marx to his face. 1 h^^ are some,” he said, “ who assert that the International is t e invention of a clever man, endowed with infallibility in n social and political matters, whom nobody has any right to oppose. Our association would therefore have merely to oW; the despotic commands of a council formed to maintain t new orthodoxy. According to us, on the contrary, t ^ International sprang spontaneously from the economic cir cumstances of the times, and we want no Pope to ju g

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