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. 196 Origen. I visited at St. Petersburg, near the corn-market, a street almost exclusively inhabited by small bankers belonging to this eccentric sect. The determination, the self-forgetful ness, the audacity of the Nihilists, compared with whose con spiracies the plots of Carbonarism are merely child’s play, are a fact so foreign to our nature that we can hardly understand it Yet it is with these sentiments, which seem so contrary to nature, that Bakunin has succeeded in inspiring his partisans, as well in western countries as in his native land. Is it not strange that this Muscovite, whose intelligence and learning are by no means remarkable, should have succeeded in originating a movement of ideas which plays so important a rôle in the march of contemporary events? Not only is he the father of Nihilism in Russia, but he has been the apostle of International Anarchic Socialism throughout the south of Europe, and it is the substance of his doctrines that we meet in those of the Paris Revolution of the i8th of March. Michael Bakunin was born in 1814, in the government of Twer, near Moscow. His family belongs to the Russian aris tocracy. One of his uncles had been an ambassador under Catherine II., and he was cousin by marriage of the General Muravieff, whom the Poles call “ the hangman of Poland.’ He studied at the School of Artillery in St. Petersburg, and entered the service as an officer. Quartered with his battery in the Polish provinces, the sight of the régime of absolute repression to which these provinces were subjected filled his heart with the hatred of despotism. He resigned his com mission and went to reside at Moscow, where he studied philosophy with Belinski. Towards 1846 he went to Germany, where Hegelian ideas captivated him, and he threw himself into the extreme left of that school of thought in which a powerful revolutionary leaven was then fermenting. In 1847 he went to Paris, where he met George Sand and 1 roudhon ; but he was soon expelled from France, probably on account of the violence of his speeches. Returning to Germany, he took an active part in the insurrections which at that time burst forth in many places, and in the spring of 1849 he was one of the leaders of the rising at Dresden, when the revolutionary party

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