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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298 SOCIALISM m ENGLAND. mentioned as having organized Mr. George’s lecturing cam paign. This society, which has lately taken the name of the English Land Restoration League,” derives its inspiration from “Progress and Poverty.” It has at present only two branches actually formed, one at Plymouth, and one in the borough of Finsbury (London) ; but Mr. Verinder, the secre tary of the League, informs me that “ arrangements are nearly completed for branches in Carlisle, and among the English and American residents in Paris.” He further says that kindred Leagues, not actually branches, exist at Hull, Birmingham, Leeds, etc. This League differs from Mr. Wallace’s Society on the question of compensation, by declaring that it “ cannot tolerate the idea that the people of England shall be compelled to buy back the land which is theirs by natural right, or to compensate those who now appropriate their earnings for the loss of power to appropriate those earnings in future.” Fol- lowing Mr. George, it proposes “ to increase taxation on land until the whole annual value is taken for the public benefit.” A “Scottish Land Restoration League” has also been formed in the present year on similar lines to its English sister. Both Leagues seem to be influenced by the Christian Socialist movement ; but what in the English programme appears as an abstract right, is called in the Scotch manifesto “ a gift fresh from the Creator to each generation whom He calls into being. ’ The Scotch manifesto, too, magnanimously says that it will not raise the question of how much compensa tion the landlords should pay to those who have been for so long “unjustly disinherited.” An attempt has been made to form a similar League in Ireland, at Belfast, and Mr. Michael Davitt, the original founder of the Land League, though he does not appear to have connected himself with the “ Irish Land Restoration Society,” has long been known to advocate the socialistic system as opposed to the “ reactionary views ” of Mr. Parnell, who has always aimed at the establishment of a peasant proprietary. There are not wanting some signs of a split on this question among the Irish agrarian reformers, but Mr. Parnell has the farmers with him almost to a man. They want to get their

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