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 SOCIALISTS OF THE CHA IE. 2/3 fore, never been treated as an isolated branch of knowledge, regulated by special laws. Even the orthodox disciples of the English school—as, for instance, Rau—have never ignored the strict ties which bind it to the other social sciences, and notably to politics, and they have readily invoked facts and history. Ever since the ideas of Adam Smith and his disciples com menced to spread in Germany, they have met with critics there, such as Professor Lueder and Count Soden, who regarded as important, not the mere growth of wealth, but the general pro gress of civilization. Next have followed Von Thünen, Adam Müller, Charles Bernhard!, List, Lorenz Stein, Roscher, Knies, Hildebrand,.Hermann, and to-day their name is legion : Nasse, Schmoller, Brentano, Schoenberg, Roesler, Dühring, Wagner, Schæffle, Cohn, Von Scheel, Samter, Engel. The principles of the orthodox economy have had in Germany, as their organ in point of practical application, the Congress of Economists ( Volkswirthschaftlicher Congress), which assembles each year in a different town, and exercises considerable influence at first on opinion and then on legisla tion. It is to this influence that is due the abolition of the greater number of restrictive regulations and, consequently, the establishment of freedom as to professions, domicil, loans at interest, the subdivision of properties, and also the successive custom-house reforms in the direction of free trade. Owing to the scientific and technical knowledge, widely spread by public educational establishments, owing also to the easy and abun dant production of coal in Westphalia, providing a cheap motive-power, the large system of industry has taken such rapid strides, that soon Germany will vie with France and even with England. But, as an inevitable consequence, the labour question is coming to the front. We have already seen how Marx and Lassalle caused the Socialist movement to arise out of the same economic conditions. One section of the Economists have remained faithful to the principle of natural laws and non-intervention of the State. Others, on the contrary, were struck with the contrast presented f>y the extraordinary increase of wealth side by side with the simultaneous development of the proletariat. They were T

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