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. 229 the first place, war to the whole religious idea : “ God,” says the Proletario, “is the people’s greatest enemy; for He has cursed labour.” “ No more faith nor obedience to the super natural,” says the Almanaco Republicano ; “ it is only on this condition that materialistic democracy will be able to construct a new society.” “ One’s country,” says the Campana, “ is an empty abstraction, in the name of which kings instigate peoples to cut each other’s throats.” Speaking of the cosmo politan idea, the Plebe is indignant at the Italia irredenta movement : “ What ! ” it says, “ you want to go to war with Austria to take from her a part of Tyrol and Trieste? nay, iook at our terra redenta, our freed territory : people die on It of pellagra and hunger.” No more government, no more authority, nothing but anarchy ; such is the final aim. “ The ^ew era,” says the Campana, “ will establish the free expansion of all human aspirations. All authority, human or Divine, must disappear, from God down to the meanest agent of police.” The following are extracts from socialistic manifestoes. In that of the Internationalists of La Puglia, dated August, 1878, we read : “ The end to be attained is to assure to men the most complete happiness possible, by the full development of all their faculties. The woman ought to be the companion of the man, not a slave or an instrument of pleasure. Love ought to be free and relieved from all codes and rituals. Every one ought to receive a complete education, so as to enable him to select the function for which he is suited. The free federation of individuals, of groups, of associations, and of communes, forms the confederacy of the human race. The revolution is not a conspiracy which seeks to change the face of society in a day, but a permanent struggle, material, moral, and intellectual, agginst the existing organization, in order to put in its place free association.” On the 6th of May, 1877, the lady Internationalists of the female sections of the Romagna and of Naples addressed a manifesto to all the working women of the peninsula : “ Our wages,” they said, “ being insufficient, we have to depend on men for subsistence. The emancipation of women is at bottom the emancipation of working men ; both are the victims of capital. Existing society says to us, ‘ Sell

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