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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R BAKUNIN THE APOSTLE OF NIHILISM. 241 bourgeoisie. The return to the régime of a bygone age would, on the contrary, perpetuate the divisions of the bourgeoisie and their intestine struggles, thus reopening to our profit the era of revolutions.” * Nothing could be more true. Socialism, when isolated, is not to be dreaded ; but in the event of a political revolution or a great reverse in a foreign war, the anarchists will be ready once more to profit by the collapse of power. If the sovereigns of Europe wish to disarm Socialism, they "'ill not succeed in doing so by exceptional laws, as in Germany, nor by casemates and Siberia, as in Russia. Let them put an pnd to this detestable antagonism of State against State, which is the curse of our times ; let them reduce their armies and diminish their taxes, and then they may fearlessly give complete liberty to a happier people. The vision of Utopia will not dis- iippear, for it is older than Plato, and Society will continue to be transformed as has been the case since prehistoric times ; but the Utopia will no longer be a dream of universal destruc- bon, and the transformations will take place peacefully. If, now, we endeavour to reach the sources of Nihilistic Socialism, we shall meet, on the one hand, the levelling philo sophers of the last century—Jean Jacques Rousseau, Morelli, ^ably, Rrissot, Helvetius j and the Socialists of the present century—Owen, St. Simon, Fourier, Proudhon, Louis Blanc; on the other hand, the German philosophers, Hegel, Feuerbach, and Schopenhauer. Marx and Lassalle, Herzen ^ud Bakunin, were at the outset enthusiastic Hegelians. In a '"cry strange book, which dates from 1845, Der Einzige und sein ^Jsentlmm (“The Individual and his Property”), written by Max ^tirner, one may see Hegelianism ending in the deification of ^-goisni, and absolutely denying everything else. Stirner takes ^or his epigraph the following verse of one of Goethe’s songs : babe meine Sache auf nichts gestellt (“I rest my hopes nothing ”). His doctrine is summed up in the following lourds of the preface : “ My affair is neither the divine nor the human, neither the true, nor the good, nor liberty, etc., but my ; myself and my interest, nothing more.” In the case of I État à Versailles et dans P Association des Travailleurs, by Brousse, noon, 1873, without the name of the publisher.

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