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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FERDINAND LASSALLE. 45 quent, and had great independence of character. She eagerly occupied herself with the political and social questions of the day, not shrinking from the boldest ideas, Lassalle, who resembled her in more than one respect, attached himself to her from the first, and swore to obtain her rights for her. Here must be related a strange incident, whiclr his enemies have often cited against him as a crime. The Baroness Meyendorf, who was very intimate with Count Hatzfeld, had just left him and was stopping at Cologne. She had with her a casket, in which Madame Hatzfeld believed were enclosed certain documents of great importance in her lawsuit Two friends of Lassalle, Mendelssohn and Oppen heim by name, got into Madame Meyendorfs room at the Hôtel Mainzer Hof, and carried off the casket, which, as it turned out, contained only jewels. When prosecuted for this abstraction, Mendelssohn was condemned and Oppenheim was acquitted. Lassalle being tried as accomplice and adviser, pleaded his own defence in an eloquent speech wherein Socialism clearly transpired. Found guilty by the jury, but only by a majority of seven to five, the magistrates, who in this case had to pronounce judgment, acquitted him, on the ground that the abstraction of the casket had not taken place by his orders, but only as a consequence of his suit against the baroness. This happened in August, 1848. As he belonged to the Dusseldorf bar, he continued to conduct the Hatzfeld case, but it was only in 1854 that he brought it to an end on terms very favourable to the countess. During the same time he threw himself eagerly into the poli tical movements of,this stormy period. He wrote in Karl Marx’s paper, the Mue Rheinische Zeitung, along with Engels, Freiligrath, Schapper, Wolff, and other less noted writers. These literary labours, however, were not enough for him ; his ardent temperament urged him to action. On the occasion of the conflict between the Prussian Chamber and the Minister Manteuflel at Berlin, he endeavoured to organize resistance at Dusseldorf against the coup d'etat by uniting the working men and the bourgeoisie ; and when a few representatives did refuse to vote the taxes, he tried to affix seals to the coffers of the

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