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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BAKUNIN THE APOSTLE OF NIHILISM. 199 ingly pronounced its dissolution, and its sections were separately admitted into the great association. Settled at Geneva, Bakunin started there the journal Egalité. By his articles in the Progrès of Lode, he induced the Socialists of the Jura to separate them selves from the radicals of French-speaking Switzerland. He thus created there the group of “ Autonomists,” in opposition to the Authoritarians, or followers of Marx. His ideas, brought by members of the International to Spain, spread there with extraordinary rapidity. The “Anarchists ” gained ground also among the French Socialists. On the 28th of September, 1870, Bakunin organized an insur rection at Lyons, which failed through an accumulation of folly. He had prepared the decree which was to pronounce the abolition of the State, but, as his opponent Marx said, two companies of bourgeois National Guards were sufficient to send him flying to Geneva. In a pamphlet entitled “ Letters to a Frenchman” (September, 1870) he set forth the line of action that he wished to see adopted by the Revolutionists in France, and which the revolution of the i8th of March was in fact about to follow to the letter. The principal points of this programme are the following “ The insurgent Capital forms itself into a Commune. The federation of the barricades is maintained in permanence. The communal council is formed of delegates, one for each barricade or ward : deputies who are responsible and always revocable. The council chooses from its members separate executive committees for each department of the revolutionary administrative of the Commune.” “ The Capital declares that, all central government being abolished it renounces the government of the provinces. It will invite the other communes, both urban and rural, to organize themselves ‘ revolutionarily,’ and to send, to a place to be named, delegates with imperative and revocable mandate, in order to establish the federation of the autonomous communes and to organize the revolutionary force necessary to triumph over the reaction. This organization is not limited to the insurgent country. Other provinces or countries may join in it. The communes which pronounce for the reaction shall be excluded from it.” Except that he ignored the principle of nationalities, that

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