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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212 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. The case was otherwise in America. The introduction and the progress of militant Socialism there were due in great part to the International. Long previously various systems of social organization had been tried there, some proceeding from Protestant sects, as the Mormons and the Communists of Oneida; others from French sects of 1848, as the Icarians of Cabet and the Phalansterians of Considérant. But these attempts at reform aimed at giving an example of a more equitable social order, and not at organizing the struggle of labour against capital. This was what the International did. A general federation of working men’s societies was formed under the name of the “ National Labour Union.” It entered into relations with the general council of the International, and sent delegates to its congresses. German emigrants spread the ideas of Lassalle and Marx throughout the States of the Union, and created sections of the International at San Francisco, Chicago, and other places. The National Labour Union, in its fifth congress, held at Cincinnati on the 15th of April, 1870, resolved to adopt the principles of the International; and the American federation of the section of the International, which assembled in congress at Phila delphia in April, 1874, declared that they accepted the resolutions of the Hague. Grievous strikes, the intensity of the industrial crisis, arid above all personal disputes among the leaders, led to a rapid Assessor in Germany (Berlin, 1884), an account is given of the two con gresses held by the German Social Democrats since the passing of the Anti-Socialist law. The first was held at Wyden, near Ossingen, Switzerland, from the 20th to the 23rd of August, 1880, and is remarkab e for the definitive schism which then occurred between the radical group» represented by Johann Most and Hassehnann, and the so-called moderate party, headed by Bebel and Liebknecht. The second congress assembled at Copenhagen on the 29th of March, 1883, and was attended by sixty delegates. They congratulated themselves that, in spite of the Lxccp" tional Law and persecution of all kinds, they could look forward wit 1 hope and confidence to the future ; and they passed a resolution to the effect that they had no confidence in the ruling classes, but were convince that the so-called social reform was only a ruse to divert the working classes from the right course. Dr. Zacher says that the Anti-Sociabs legislation has entirely suppressed all overt agitation, and that the sccre agitation which has taken its place “ can hardly be said to be really formidable. ”— Tr. ]

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