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/ themselves definitively from Marx, and pronounced in favour of Bakunin, who had been, in fact, their Messiah. Even since the International has ceased to exist the name has continued to be given to all Socialistic associations in Italy, and, for that matter, they call themselves “ Sections of the Italian federation of the International Association of Labourers.” Their number has not ceased to increase, and they may be said to exist in all the towns. Latterly, in order to escape the severity of the police, they have taken the name of “ Circles tor Social Studies.” From time to time they issue manifestoes, and occasionally they assemble in regional congresses. They carry on an active propaganda. Although the Italian Statute- book did not proclaim liberty of association at the same time as the other essential liberties, the exercise of the right has ecome customary, and is recognized in practice as guaranteed hy the constitution. To attack the associations called inter national, jurisprudence has been obliged to look upon them as associations of malefactors preparing crimes against common right, such as assassination and robbery. It is on this ground that they have been dissolved and their members prosecuted. In 1874 proceedings were taken to arrest all the provincial commissions, to dissolve by force all the sections, and to sequester their registers and papers. The juries, however, often brought in an acquittal. The prosecutions served only to transform the associations into secret societies—a trans formation which greatly augments their prestige, their influence and their popularity, for they thus answer much better to the habits of conspiracy engrained in the people. * In a letter written from Locarno, on the 5th of April 1872 to Francesco Mora, at Madrid, Bakunin thus described the Socialistic movement in Italy: “You are doubtless aware that the International and our dear Alliance have lately taken a great development in Italy. Hitherto it was not revolutionary instincts that were wanting, but organization

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