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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302 SOCIALISM IN ENGLAND. The connection between the Christian Socialist efforts of Maurice and Kingsley and their friends, and the co-operative movement out of which the present co-operative organization has grown up, is very candidly stated by Mr. E. V. Neale, who was concerned in the Christian Socialist movement of 1848, and is now the venerable general secretary of the Co-operative Union. In a letter published by Professor R. T. Ely,* Mr. Neale says that the two movements were “independent of each other in their origin, though they have subsequently, to a certain extent coalesced.” The Rochdale Pioneers, who gave the first impulse to the distributive societies in 1844, were Owenite rather than Christian, and it was not until the beginning of 1850 that the “ Society for promoting Working Men’s Associations ” was started in London under the presidency of Mr. Maurice. Most of the societies formed under the special influence of the Christian Socialists in London failed from one cause or another, and, as Mr. Neale says, “ had it not been for the growth of distributive co-operation in the north, the movement would have been at an end in England.” The efforts of the Christian Socialists were, however, not without fruit. It was mainly through their instrumentality that a most desirable change in the law as to Industrial and Provident societies was effected in 1852, and when the first steps towards the present organi zation had been taken, the influence of Maurice and Kingsley was undoubtedly felt in the moral and broadly Christian tone infused throughout the movement, f The Christian Socialists of to-day in England maintain that they are but carrying out the teachings of Maurice and Kings ley, though the more advanced add that they are doing so in the light of the economic investigations of Karl Marx, Lassai le, and Henry George. Many of them are far more radical in their aims than their Continental namesakes, whether of the school of Bishop Ketteler or of that of Dr. Stocker. The most extreme section is represented by the “ Guild of St. Matthew,” • See his “French and German Socialism in modern times” (1883), p. 2152. t Seethe “Manual for Co-operators,” edited by Thorny Hughes, Q.C., and E. V. Neale, and pubhshed for the Central Co-operative Board.

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