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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INTRODUCTION. XXXVll inequality both by devouring a large portion of the produce which might go to improve the lot of the labourers, and by enabling an increasing number of independent persons to live on the interest of loans necessitated by wars and armaments. In the second place, forced service draws into the large towns, always more or less active centres of socialistic ideas, all the pung men from the country districts, and through them these Ideas penetrate into the hamlets where lately the feelings and beliefs of the past were preserved intact I do not believe that, up to the present, the majority of soldiers have anywhere been gained over to Socialism ; far from it ; but evidently here les the great danger for the existing order of things, which depends, after all, upon the support of bayonets. If this last rampart were carried, frightful convulsions would inevitably ensue. ^ Let us now endeavour to separate what is true in Socialism trom what is false. The foundation of all socialistic claims is the assertion that present social system is to increase inequality, Jï labourers becoming daily worse, while the a ote capitalists and landowners is always augmenting. •.ble Ibafe™.'".™'’' '' '*■ ™ doubt, incontest- ■

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