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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TUE RISE AND FALL OF THE INTERNATIONAL. 185 and Eccarius for the Bethnal Green branch in London. The report contains a remarkable address from the “ Italian Com mittee for the Social Revolution.” This address gives a faithful picture of the peculiar character of the Socialist move ment in Italy, and it further proves that it is not well to exclude such a movement from common rights, by depriving it of the power of acting openly. The address contains the following extracts :—“ The Italian masses, being inclined to conspiracy, accept the International only with great distrust . . . this organization in the light of day is absurd. . . . Freedom of speech, the right of assembly, liberty of the press, and all the other liberties inscribed on the Italian Statute-book, are so many snares of which our enemies know how to make use. Therefore, from all parts the demand arises for a radical change of system, and already a vast and solid revolutionary Socialist conspiracy is beginning to push its roots down to the lowest stratum of the Italian proletariat. . . . Wholesale sup pression, decreed by the government, has led us to an abso lutely secret conspiracy. As this organization is far superior to the former one, we may congratulate ourselves that persecu tions have put an end to the public International. We shall continue to march along the secret path that we have adopted, as the only one which can lead us to our final goal, the Social revolution.” Suppression tried in Germany has had similar results. Socialism, instead of acting openly, has been trans formed into a conspiracy, the advance of which is equally rapid, as the recent elections have shown, and the danger of which is far more real. Liberty has a double advantage : it soon reveals the impotence and the nothingness of false doctrines ; and, on the other hand, it warns Conservatives to keep on their guard and to introduce reforms demanded by justice and the general weal. The eighth congress, which met at Berne, on the 26th October, 1876, was no more International than the preceding. It was composed almost exclusively of delegates from the Federation of the Jura, to whom were added a Belgian, two Spaniards, two Frenchmen, and some Italians. The reports from the different countries stated that the International saw

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