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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330 SOCIALISM IN ENGLAND. minster Review * expressed a similar idea. It would hardly augur well for the future of profit-sharing if it were forced upon employers by unionist strikes; but if the Trades Unions pronounced emphatically in its favour, it is probable that many employers would be encouraged to give it a fair trial, and if the system was found to work well, it would gradually win its way to general adoption. Indeed, in more ways than one there is much to be hoped from an understanding between Co- operators and Trades Unionists. The two bodies are to a large extent composed of the same individuals, and they have fundamentally the same end in view, namely, the material and moral elevation of the working men who join them ; though the means which they employ are very different. If Trades Unions would combine with the Co-operative organi zation and devote some of their capital to promoting Co operative production and making it successful, they would be doing much towards the emancipation of the wage-earner in the only complete manner, namely, by making him his own employer. There are not wanting indications that the leaders of the Unionists are fully alive to the importance of the Co operative movement, and are prepared to recommend any assistance in their power to its development. I have introduced this brief notice of the Co-operative movement, in a chapter concerned with Socialism, because I am convinced that in the development of this movement, especially on its productive side, and in the wide extension of the system of profit-sharing, will be found the most promising, the most just, and the most permanently efficacious means of putting an end to the antagonism between employers and employed, and of overcoming the worst of those evils of our present industrial system which Socialism, in all its forms, has arisen to attack. If it be said that when Co-operation becomes general the old evils will arise again under the form of com petition between the different societies, I think it may be answered that some competition there will probably be, and in the interest of the consumer, that is to say, of everybody, it is * See the article entitled “ Co-operation or Spoliation,” in the number for April, 1884.

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