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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232 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. in large factories, the Alliance made rapid conquests there. At one time, as the result of successful insurrections, it had several large towns in its hands, but it soon succumbed in the midst of the disorder and anarchy it had created. Up to about 1867, the labour movement, directed by the newspaper the Obrero, was in no way revolutionary; it aimed at the establishment of societies for mutual aid, for savings, and for production. After the overthrow of the throne of Isabella the International sent delegates to Spain, who were well received. On the 2ist of October, 1868, the general council addressed a manifesto to the Spanish working men, urging them to demand social reforms. “ Without economic equality,” it said, “the political liberty offered you is a snare. Without the overthrow of existing civil institutions, even the republic will profit you nothing. What you must aim at is the social revolution.” At the congress of the International, which met at Brussels, a Spanish delegate. Sarro Magadan, of Barcelona, was present. On the 2nd of March, 1867, in this great indus trial town, the first section was founded, and a newspaper, the Federación, published. Soon a central section was established at Madrid. The principal leaders were Morago and Francesco Mora, who also edited a newspaper. La Solidaridad. The police commenced prosecutions ; but nevertheless, the number of the sections rapidly increased, and at the close of 1869 there were 195 of them, with more than twenty thousand members.* Curiously enough, a very active section was established at Palma, in the island of Majorca, with its organ. La yusticia Sociale. The agricultural labourers took part in the movement, and formed groups, especially in Andalusia, where the latifundia exclude the cultivators from the posses sion of the land, and reduce them to an insufficient wage. In February, 1872, the minister Sagasta, frightened at the * yisiting Spain in 1869, I was present at several sittings of these Socialistic clubs. They were usually held in churches erected for religious worship, r rom the pulpit, the orators attacked all that had been previously venerated there: God, religion, the priests, the rich. The speeches were at white heat, but the listeners remained calm. Many women were seated on the floor, working, suckling their babes, and listening attentively, as to a sermon. It was the very picture of ’93.

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