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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2I8 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. tion of 1874 as many as 535,000 electors, or ninety per cent. \ of the whole number, recorded their votes. The collective property of the Commune is also to be found in existence under the old institution of the Allmends. There is no standing army, hardly any taxation, and few police. The Commune is ^ autonomous, and the Canton is formed by the federation of the Communes. What more could “ Anarchism ” require ? It is true that they have not yet got Bakunin’s “ Amorphism.” * The International gained a footing in Belgium in 1865 ; but it was not until December, 1866, that the first section was f constituted, at Liège. We see in the report of the delegate, „■ De Paepe, at the Congress of Lausanne, that a very active j section had been founded at Brussels, and that the working men’s societies of Ghent and Antwerp were connected with ^ it. At the Congress of Brussels in 1868 the delegate Frère ’ announced that several very large sections had been formed I in the coal-basin of Charleroi, and that at Verviers “ the free | labourers ” had joined and had even started a newspaper, the rj Mirabeau, which, strange to say, still exists. At Bruges a j section was formed with a journal called the Vooruit, and soon afterwards there appeared at Antwerp the Werker, which exer cised a great influence over the working men in the Flemish ¡ towns. In December all the sections formed a federation. j A general council of sixteen members was chosen and a journal J started, the Internationale. The sections were grouped accord- ing to the coal-basins, and were all to send delegates to the \ general congress held every year. It was almost a reproduc- | tion of the parent association. The strikes and conflicts which i resulted therefrom, in the neighbourhood of Charleroi and J: * [In Switzerland, according to Dr. Zacher rothe Internationale), the entire body of Socialists of all shades, in 1880, hardly numbered 15,000 out of a population of three millions. They have been unable to organize their ^ forces owing to internal dissensions between the various sections, the split between the Most-Hasselmann and Hebel-Liebknecht groups of Germany finding its counterpart in Switzerland. In September, 1883, a congress (Allgemein Schweizerischer Arbeitertag) was held at Zurich, at which 17^ delegates were present, and an executive committee was formed with the object of uniting the several groups, viz. the Griitlianer, the Gewerkschaftler, the German Working Men’s Unions (Deutsche Arbeitervereine), the Swiss Social Democrats, and the German Social Democrats. By the middle of November, 1883, it had, however, enrolled only 3680 members.—Tr.\

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