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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COLLECTIVISM AND LAND NATIONALIZATION. 245 Wliat constitutes Collectivism will be better understood if we analyze the system as presented by the writers who have niost clearly explained it M. Louis Blanc, in his book “ The Organization of Labour,” advocates a kind of collectivist system, according to which the State should take possession of all the means of production—the land, mines, factories, etc.—in order to entrust the working of them to associations of labourers, ßut Louis Blanc's ideal was Communism, with the formula, ‘ To each according to his wants ; from each according to his strength,” while the Collectivists admit that recompense should ^0 proportioned to work done, which is the principle of indi- ''idual responsibility. Moreover, Louis Blanc did not attempt to determine what form the society of the future should take. in the writings of Colins, a Belgian Socialist, and still more m the developments of his theories by his disciples, Agathon Potter, Hugentobler, and Borda, Collectivism takes a form oasier to grasp, especially in all that concerns agrarian organiza tion, The following is a summary of their theories, preceded a short sketch of their master’s life. Jean-Guillaume-César-Alexandre-Hippolyte Baron de Colins Was born at Brussels on the 24th of December, 1783, and was the son of the Chevalier Colins, of Ham. He was, it is said, descended from Charles the Bold, as St Simon was from Charlemagne. He was brought up exclusively by his mother until he was seven and a half years old, when his father sent him for education to an old friend of his, a former Jesuit, and '’tear at Dison. He was enrolled as a volunteer in the French army at the time when the descent on England was about to take place, and he won all his steps on the field of battle. In tSig he settled at Havana as a doctor. He returned to h ranee immediately after the revolution of 1830. The sight of the tricolour flag recalled to him his youth, and he became associated with the Bonapartist conspiracy. He continued '’ery intimate with Joseph Bonaparte, whom, it appears, he won uver to his ideas of reform. In 1833 he took up again his scientific studies, attending courses in Paris in all the faculties, ^ud published in 1835 his first work, entitled Le Pacte Social. u it he already formulated Collectivism, and one of the articles

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