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. 2$] Every individual on attaining majority is to be given a portion to enable him to work independently and exclusively for his own profit ; but will not this portion, paid probably in money, be foolishly spent, to the injury of the young generation and of the whole community? If Collectivism is to be anything more than land nationalization, and if it is to be applied to manufacture, it assumes the success of co-operative societies in winning the business of manufacture from the capitalist régime. But in that case the difficulties already pointed out in analyzing Lassalle’s projects of reform will inevitably arise. In a charming book, entitled Le Règne Social du Christian isme., François Huet has expressed ideas very similar to those of the disciples of Colins, but he has borrowed them directly from the lofty moral teaching of Platonism and Christianity. This work, every page of which glows with a burning love of justice, contains a complete theory of society—a sociology based on Christianity, which has not met with the attention If deserves, because it is too full of Christianity for Socialists, and too full of Socialism for Christians. François Huet was born in 1814, at the town of Villeau, in Beauce, and died at Paris in 1869. When a pupil at the Stanislas College he obtained by hard work amid the keenest competition the most unprecedented success. At the age of twenty-twa he was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ghent, a post which he retained up to 1850. He was the disciple of a spiritualist philosopher, a man of very vigorous intellect, Bordas-Demoulin, and, through him, of Descartes and Plato. Protesting to the last against Ultra- montanism and its new dogmas, they were the last Gallicans of the school of Pascal and Bossuet. About the year 1846 bis philosophical studies led Huet to approach social ques- fions, as has been the case with most of the philosophers of nur times : for example, Jules Simon, Janet, Caro, in France ; Herbert Spencer in England ; Fichte and the followers of Hegel in Germany ; Rosmini and Mamiani in Italy. At Ghent, Huet collected around him a group of pupils, among ''’horn was the author of this book, and from before 1848 we thoroughly studied, each with his own preferences, the various

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