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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256 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. In a very simple society, depending principally on agri culture, it would not be impossible to put in practice “ the right to patrimony,” In my book La Propriété et ses formes primitives* I have shown how this actually takes place in the Russian mir, in the dessa of Java, in the Swiss allmend, and in the periodic partition of Communal lands which existed everywhere in the infancy of agriculture ; but how is this system to be applied to our present social state, without the interven tion of permanent trade corporations or co-operative societies ? This is what neither Huet nor Colins enables us to under stand. The merit of his book. Le Régne Social du Christianisme, consists, not in this summary scheme of social reorganization, which I have often discussed with him without his ever being able to formulate it clearly, but in the principles of justice, which he explains in a luminous way, while connecting them closely with the traditions of the Old Testament and the Gospel. The system of “Land Nationalization,”according to which the collective principle is applied only to land, has found a certain number of adherents in England, even among very distinguished minds, as, for example, the eminent naturalist, Mr. A. R. Wallace.f It has never been explained in a more brilliant style than in the book of an American writer, Mr. Henry George, called “ Progress and Poverty.” Numerous editions of this work have been sold both in the United States and in England, It has been translated into several languages and discussed in almost all the English and American reviews and newspapers. It produced so great an impression that the author has been asked to explain his theories before an assembly of some of the clergy of the Established Church, and dissenting ministers and university professors have presided at conferences and organized meetings to spread his ideas. In this book, animated with the spirit of levelling Christianity and written with great talent, Mr. George proposes “ to seek the law which associates poverty with progress, and increases wane * This book has been translated into English. London, Macmillan, 1878. t See his “Land Nationalization: its Necessity and its Aims,” London, 1882.

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