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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THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. 246 of his scheme of reform is, “ Immovable property belongs to all.” In 1848 Colins was accused of having participated in the revolution of June, but was pardoned. He died at Paris on the 12th of November, 1859, after having published a great number of works and leaving numerous manuscripts afterwards brought out by his disciples.* Colins and his disciples attach great importance to their philosophical views, on which they assert their whole system, which they call “ Rational Socialism,” is founded ; but here the want of special study is clearly felt. They admit the im mortality of our spiritual being, which they call, by a strange abuse of language, “Sensibility,” while they deny the existence of a Deity. They are eager to prove that our notions of morality, justice, and equality of rights are based solely on the permanence of the human personality, but they fail to perceive that the pursuit of a rational order implies an ideal and an origin outside of ourselves. They are, then, at once Spiritualists and Atheists. All men, they say, are equal, as being all formed by the union of a “ sensibility ” to an organism. All men are brothers, as having all the same origin. Man alone, among all animate beings, is responsible for his actions, for he alone is a conscious * The following are his principal works :— Le Pacte Sociale, 2 vols., 8vo, 1835. L'Économie politique source des r'evolutions et des utopies pretendtus Sociales, 3 vols., i2mo, 1856-57. Qu’est-ce que la science Sociale ? 3 vols., 8vo, 1851-54. La Société nouvelle, sa nécessité, 2 vols., 8vo, 1857. La Souveraineté, 2 vols., 8vo, 1857-58. La Science Sociale, 5 vols., 8vo, 1857. La Justice dans la Science, hors V Église et hors la Révolution, 3 vols., 8vo, 1861. Colins also wrote in 1848 in certain journals : La Révolution démo cratique et Sociale, the Tribunal des Peuples, and the Presse. He left numerous manuscripts, the publication of which has been com menced by his disciples. In this way the Philosophie de Pavenir, the organ of the Rational Socialists, has published, among other works, the fourth volume of Colins’ L'Économie politique ; two volumes of his the sixth and the eleventh ; different minor works, such as the Choléra moral. Qui donc est peuple I Examen critique de la décadence de V Angle terre, by Ledru-Rollin, L'impôt pratique confirmant la théorie, etc., etc. The editors of the Philosophie de Pavenir announce that they will publish in succession all the manuscripts left by the master.

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