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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22 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. and with Heinrich Heine, the journal Vorwärts (Forwards). Expelled from France in 1844, and from Brussels in 1848, he returned to Germany, and took advantage of the liberty gained there through the revolution of March to bring out, in company with his friend Wolff, a journal in which he roughly handled the bourgeoisie. Prosecuted anew, he fled for refuge to London, where he subsequently lived, dividing his time between economical studies and the secret direction of the International.* As early as 1847, in a manifesto drawn up with the aid of his friend Friedrich Engels, in the name of the German Com munists in London, Marx formulated the two principles which still rule German and indeed European Socialism. He there maintains, in the first place, that the interests of the working classes in their struggle against the capitalists, being every where the same, rise above the distinctions of nationality ; and, in the second place, that working men should acquire political rights in order to break the yoke of the capitalists. We shall not follow Marx throughout his active career ; to do so would be to write the history of the International, which we shall approach later on. It is only his ideas that we wish to make known here. His writings are not numerous. In 1847 he published a very trenchant and often very just criticism of Proudhon’s Contradictions Économiques, under the title. Misère de la Philosophie, Réponse à la Philosophie de la Misère, par M. Proudhon (The Want of Philosophy, A Reply to M. Proud hon’s Philosophy of Want). Marx disliked Proudhon, although he came near to him on many points. In 1859 he published “ A Critique of Political Economy,” a large part of which was reproduced in his last work. Das Kapital, which appeared in 1867. t Marx’s whole system and the 830 pages of closely printed * [Marx died on the 14th March, 1883.—7>.] t The second edition came out in 1873. M. J. Roy’s French trans lation, which was revised and completed by the author, appeared in parts in 1875. The work has been translated into Russian. [The third German edition was brought out by Friedrich Engels in 1883. An English trans lation is promised shortly, which will include the unpublished second part.—7>.]

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