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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230 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. yourselves or die of starvation.’ The society of the future will say to us, ‘ Live, work, love.’ ” The Circle for Social Studies of Rome published its programme (July, 1878), containing the following principles—(i) Abolition of all privilege ; (2) Pro ductive labour the only legitimate source of wealth ; (3) The instruments of production to be the property of the labourer ; (4) Emancipation and “ reintegration of the individual and collective man.” In June, 1878, the Internationalist federation of Rimini sent forth a manifesto, saying, “No more privileged property, but collectivism, that is to say, possession in common of land and of all instruments of production ; bread, wealth, education, justice, liberty for all. The land to him who tills it, the machine to him who uses it, and the house to him who inhabits it.” Confused amalgam of communism and individual ism. In a manifesto of the Internationalists of Montonero, Antignani, Ardenza, and San-Jacobo, the theory of anarchism is clearly formulated. “ The State is the negation of liberty ; for, no matter who commands, all serve. Authority creates nothing and corrupts everything. Every State, however democratic, is an instrument of despotism. The best govern ment is one which succeeds in rendering itself useless. Merely to change the political régime is of no use. A man has a thorn in his foot ; he thinks to ease himself by changing his boots, but he suffers all the more. It is the thorn he must get rid of The free man in the free commune ; and throughout humanity nothing but federated communes—that is the future.” Among Italian Socialists, as everywhere in Europe to-day, there are two parties : that of the “Authoritarian Collectivists,” who call for State Intervention ; and that of the “ Revolutionary Anarchists,” who desire the destruction of the State and the abolition of all authority. I borrow from M. B. Malon’s “ History of Socialism ” two extracts which sufficiently describe these two varieties. The following are, in the first place, the principles of the Collectivists, originally published in the Fovero, and afterwards adopted by the Plebe of Milan (1877). (1) Collective ownership of land and of the means of production ; (2) Substitution of a free and equal family for the moral oppressive family in which the wife and children are the slaves of the husband and father ;

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