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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210 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. of Other countries ; and that the principles of the International will lead to a lasting peace between the nations of the world. The principle of collectivism as applied to land, adopted at the Congresses of Brussels (1868) and of Bâle (1869), was included in the programme of the advanced party of Land Reform. “ Seeing that the monopoly of landed property is the source of all the evils, social, moral, and political, from which society suffers; and that the only remedy is to restore the land to its legitimate heir : the land shall be held by the State, which shall grant the use of it on conditions to be hereafter determined. The existing proprietors shall receive by way of indemnity Government stocks. The abolition of the standing army, the profits of the national bank, and a direct progressive tax, replacing all other taxes, shall furnish the necessary resources for this reform.” Even in these extreme propositions the juridical spirit of the English is seen. On the Continent, when it is proposed to confiscate property, there is no question of indemnifying proprietors. What ! these bandits, who have been robbing the people for all these ages, are we to pay them more ! They may think themselves lucky if we leave them their skins. In England respect for property survives even at the moment when it is being abolished, and an equitable indemnity is accorded in consols.” * At the Congress of Bâle, Applegarth, president of the General Association of Carpenters, announced that the eighl hundred thousand members of the trades unions were a devoted to the International. In 1870 it was affirmed that two hundred and thirty working men’s societies, with ninety five thousand members, were affiliated. But these pure y platonic adhesions brought little resources or power to the association. It tried to found sections directly in the manu factoring towns, and in a congress held with this object a Manchester, in July, 1873, under the presidency of the red flag was adopted for the Britannic federation, red flag,” said the preamble, “ is the symbol of blood shed ♦ [The Land Reformers of the present day in England are no long_^ ^;=tinp-uished by this respect for property.—See tnfra^ bociahs all distinguished by England.”—Tr.\

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