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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192 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. CHAPTER X. BAKUNIN THE APOSTLE OF NIHILISM. W HEN Dante descended through the circles of the Inferno and reached the lowest depths of the “ city without hope,” he found himself face to face with the awful sovereign of the revolted angels : “ Ü Imperador del doloroso regno." So, when we penetrate to the lowest stratum of Revolutionary Socialism, we meet Bakunin, It is impossible to go further, for he is the apostle of universal’ destruction, of absolute An archism, or, as he himself terms his doctrine, of “ Amorphism.” He it was who, borrowing the name and the organization of the International, spread Anarchic Socialism throughout the Latin countries. His were the ideas which, as we have shown, prevailed in the Commune of Paris, and it is his ideas which to-day form the basis of the programmes adopted by the majority of Socialist Associations in Italy, in Switzerland, in Belgium, in Spain, and even in France. What are these ideas, whence do they come, and who is Bakunin? It is worth knowing, for this is the foe that for many a day existing society will have to combat. Proudhon was a brilliant dialectician, but he had clear ideas upon nothing, and consequently he is full of contra dictions. On the one hand, he abolishes private property and leaves to individuals possession only ; what possession—for life, for periods of years, or revocable at any moment?—he does not say, but in any case the State will be the collective owner, and all the requisites of production will be concentrated in the State. On the other hand, pushing the hostility of

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