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 CHAIR. 275 found scholars whose authority is even less contested, such as Roscher, Nasse, Conrad, and Von Sybel. It is none the less true that the members of the new school pass by insensible shades—descensus Averni—from the borders of orthodoxy to the confines of Radical Socialism. The Socialism of the Chair may be said to have taken bodily form, and to have been established as a special doctrine in the annual reunions of the Association for “ Social Politics ” {Sozial Politik), the first of which took place on the 6th of October, 1872. It is hardly necessary to say, however, that similar ideas had been previously expressed in Germany, France, and England. We may mention in particular God win’s “Political Justice,” 1793; Sismondi’s Nouveaux prin cipes dkconotnie politique, 1827 ; and his Études sur Véconomie politique, 1836; A. '^mxqí's La Misère des classes laborieuses en France et en Angleterre ; Lorenz Stein’s Der Socialismus des heutigen Frankreichs, 1842 ;* also the “ History of the Petty Crafts in Germany during the Nineteenth Century,” f by G. Schmoller, Professor at the University of Halle, then of Strasburg, and now of Berlin, in which book he has well brought out the relative character of economic phenomena; and another work by the same author, in which, while examin ing a tax on income, he has admirably indicated the influence of morals on Political Economy. Again, G. Schönberg, Pro fessor at the University of Tübingen, in his much-discussed works on the industrial régime in our epoch and in the Middle Ages,J admitted the necessity of protective interven- • I may also mention an article that I published in 1848, in a Belgian review, the Flandre Libérale, in which I came to the conclusions now held by the Extreme Left of the Socialists of the Chair. It is a critical examination of the letters then recently published by Michael Chevalier on the organization of labour. M. Chevalier, in order to bring about the solution of the social (¡uestion, recommends thrift, property, and association. I replied, “ Thrift is an excellent thing, but to render it possible for the labourer, there must be a more equitable distribution of produce ; property is a still better thing, but it must be made universal ; association is perfect, but it ought to be based on the recr^nition of the natural right of appro priation common to all.” I was inspired by the “ Natural Right ’ of Ahrens, by Fichte’s book on the French Revolution, and, above all, by the ideas of our eminent professor at the University of Ghent, François Huet. t Zur Geschichte der deutschen Kleingewerbe im xixten Jahrhunderte. $ Arbeitsämter and Deutsche Zunftwesen im Mittelalter, 1868.

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