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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211 BAKUNIN THE APOSTLE OF NIHILISM. the people for liberty. Adopted by Socialists of all countries, It represents the unity and fraternity of the races of men, while the national banners represent hostility and war between the different States.” Up to the present John Bull, “this stupid animal,” does not seem to have grasped the beauty of this theory of colours. When the red flag appears in meetings and processions in England, it is almost always borne by foreigners. After the schism of the Hague, Eccarius and Hales abandoned Marx. The most violent became Bakunists. The great mass of the working men, limiting their views to the present time and to the horizon of their island, remained within the local movement of their trades unions. The International has, however, instilled into them a sympathy for revolutionary agitations abroad, and the idea of collective ownership of the soil at home. It is said that they are now becoming more Socialistic, and that they are rising to “ the synthetical idea ; ” but it is not easy to measure the strength of this underground evolution. “The Annual of Socialism” {Jahrbuch der Sozialwissenschaft), of Dr. Ludwig Richter, in reviewing the progress of Socialism in civilized countries in 1879, makes no mention of England, “because there is nothing to tell about it.” • ® Although the International was the outcome of German Socialism, since it was Marx who formulated its principles and created its organization, its influence in Germany has been still less than in England. In speaking in former chapters of Lassalle and Marx, we have sketched the growth of Socialistic ideas in Germany ; we therefore need not recur to it again The movement was too independent and too powerful to obev the action of an association which had neither its head quarters nor its roots in the country. Many working men’s societies sent to the International good wishes and even adhesions but they took from it neither their doctrines nor tneir watchwords, f founVa^peSSiÂrÎ'r" """""" >" E.gkW will b. t [In a book. Die Rothe Internationale, by Dr. Zacher. Government

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