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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i82 THE SOCIALISM OE TO-DAY. “The International Federation of the Jura,” summed up the grievances of the Autonomists. The general council replied by excommunications. It excluded in succession the women’s association founded in New York by Mrs. Woodhull and Mrs. Clafflin, the two priestesses of Free Love, the Belgian federation of Brussels, the Spanish federation of Cordova, and that ot London, all of which had decided to reject the decisions of the Hague, and it refused to recognize an Italian federation which had not conformed to the statutes. The International of Marx thus lost, little by little, all influence in the Latin countries. There only remained a few of the faithful in England, Germany, and America. In order to rally its scattered forces, it convoked a general congress at Geneva, for the 8th of September, 1873. On their side, the dissenting Autonomists decided to assemble in the same town, on the 2nd of September. We have, there fore, two Internationals face to face. Twenty-eight delegates attended the congress of Autono mists. They commenced by reading reports on the situation in the different countries. The representative of Spain, Farga Pelissier, was the only one who could give favourable news. There were, he said, more than seven hundred different associations there with flfty thousand members, and soon the working men in the large towns would rise en masse to bring about the triumph of anarchy. It was evident that Bakunin was the apostle of Socialism in Spain.* The news from other countries was discouraging. The divisions among the leaders had arrested the propaganda. The debates in the congress were uninteresting. The Autonomists had no difficulty in making their ideas prevail, and the general council was abolished amid the enthusiastic applause of the assembly. No more authority, no more directorship, such is the ideal. Each * As early as 1871 and 1872, such an active socialistic propagandism was carried on in Spain that the Minister for Foreign Affairs of King Amadeo sent to all the diplomatic agents a circular note, dated the 9th of February, 1872, proposing that the Governments should take common action to suppress the movement everywhere. Lord Granville in reply pointed out, as an objection to this proposal, that the laws of England admitted the right of asylum, and the project of a crusade fell through. The disturb ances of which the peninsula was soon afterwards the theatre, prove, however, that the danger was not imaginary.

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