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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SOCIALISM IN ENGLAND. For good or for evil, England no longer enjoys an immunity from Socialism or socialistic propaganda. I do not allude to what has been called the socialistic tendency of recent legisla tion,* important as that tendency is as showing the growing confidence of democracy in officialism. I allude to more active and further reaching, if for the moment less effective, socialistic movements. There is, in the first place, the movement for the “ Nationalization of the Land,” which has recently received a great impetus from the writings of Mr. Henry George. Secondly, there is the movement of “ Christian Socialism,” which is to-day advancing far beyond what Maurice and Kingsley, who were the first to call themselves Christian Socialists, ever had in view. Finally, there is the out-and-out Collectivist agitation conducted by the members of the Social Democratic Federation, who may be looked upon as the disciples of Karl Marx in England.t There are, no doubt, some individual Anarchists in this country, but they are not an organized body. There is every reason to • Mr. Herbert Spencer, the great apostle of Individualism, has recently inveighed against this tendency in articles in the monthly reviews on the “New Toryism,” the “Coming Slavery,” etc. These articles have lx;en collected and published as a book : “The Man versus the State” (1884). A society also has been formed, called the Liberty and Property Defence League ^ “ for resisting over-legislation, for maintaining freedom of con tract and for advocating Individualism as opposed to Socialism, entirely irrespective of party politics.” Central offices, 4, Westminster Chambers. f Miss Eleanor Marx, one of the daughters of Karl Marx, is a prominent member of the Federation. She contributes to To-day, its monthly magazine, a “Record of the International Popular Movement.”

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