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. 22$ longer mere republicans. Of what avail to overthrow a king more devoted to his country than the best president ? Many of us, however, are Socialists.” At Bologna, the Prefect, Marquis Gravina, said to me, “ I do not think that there are more than five hundred working men regularly affiliated to the International, but almost all of them have adopted its ideas.” In the working men’s societies visited by me I heard repeatedly, “ Those who do nothing live in opulence ; we labour and yet we are in extreme want That cannot last” The first working men's societies in Italy, dating from 1848, were founded under the inspiration of MazzinL In 1863 they numbered 453 with 111,608 members, and in 1875 more than 1000 with about 200,000 associates. A good many of them— over 300—were federated so as to constitute the “ Fraternal Union of Working Men’s Societies ” {^Società operaie italiane affratellate). They have a managing committee sitting at Rome, where a congress is held almost every year. Mazzini, after his secession from the International, became more and more hostile to it in proportion as the influence of Bakunin over it increased. He reproached it, in the first place, for denying the notion of God, the sole basis of right in the name of which the labourers could demand justice ; secondly, for suppressing the Father- land, the essential form of human brotherhood ; and lastly, for abolishing property, the sole incentive to the production of more than men require for their immediate wants, and conse quently the sole agent of economic progress. He did not reject social reforms. On the contrary, he sought for a system which would ensure the union of capital and labour, and would transform property without abolishing it ; but he had a horror of Communism. He condemned with indignation the Com mune of Paris, just as, in 1848, he had cursed “ the days of June.” The Anarchists reproached him bitterly for doing so ^Mazzini was not an Economist. He looked for salvation to • Published in 1871, without name of printer or place of publication. Q

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