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. 213 decline of the power of the International. The general council, which, in accordance with the decision of the Congress of the Hague, had fixed its seat at New York, exercised no influence there and soon ceased to exist. Nevertheless, the seeds sown by the International grew apace. The struggle of labourers against capitalists is organized everywhere to-day, and the Labour newspapers constantly notify strikes. In the late elections in California a large number of Socialists were returned. Macaulay's famous prophecy of the barbarians that will one day appear in the midst of the American cities does not seem so improbable as it did thirty years ago. The remarkable book, “ Progress and Poverty,” recently published by Mr. Henry George, at San Francisco, graphically describes the circumstances that are bringing these “ barbarians ” into existence. The only efficacious preservative against revolutionary Socialism is the diffusion of property. A new proof of this IS presented by the fact that, in the Scandinavian countries, e International was the less successful in proportion as the agrarian system was the more democratic ; that is to say not at all in Norway, to a small extent in Sweden, and more in Denmark. The International penetrated into Denmark in the spring of 1871, a short time after the fall of the Commune 1 he apostle of the association was Pio, a retired militant officer. He found a devoted lieutenant in Paul Geleff who used to write in an Ultramontane newspaper, Heimdal. Geleff went through the different towns preaching the “ glad tidinirs ” amihesm:ceak:d infoumffi^rs^^rionsinriie gmakr number of them, at Aalborg, Randers, Aarhuus, Skanderborg, Horsens Cklem.,, ^id Nakskov: /Lt the beginning of 1872 thele section: already counted eight thousand members, of whom five thousand belonged to the capital. Many women joined the 1 tookiflace fi-om this time forth. . ..:z,

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