The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 866692347

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93845

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Raeder, Anton Henrik http://d-nb.info/gnd/115767741X

Title:: L' arbitrage international chez les Hellenes

Place of publication:: Kristiania

Publisher:: Aschehoug [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (322 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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THE FORERUNNERS—FICHTE AND MARLO. 9 The writings of Weitling attracted but slight attention. Possibly they helped to spread in Southern Germany the revolutionary leaven which burst forth in the insurrection at Baden in 1848, but there was then no German Socialist party.* After the revolutionary movements of 1848 had resulted throughout Europe in a period of reaction, the march of socialistic ideas, completely arrested in France, at least in all publications, began to assume a scientific character in Germany. Under the name of Mario, Professor Winkelblech published, in parts, an important work, which was still incomplete at his death in 1859. This work is entitled “Investigations on the Organization of Labour, or System of Universal Political Economy.In a striking passage of the preface he relates how he came to interest himself in social questions. He was visiting the north of Europe in 1843, in order to study the progress of manufactures there. One day, just as he was leaving the factory of Modum in Norway, he turned to take a last look at the Alpine-like valley in which it is situated. While he was contemplating the lovely scenery, a German working man came up to him and begged him to carry home a message for him. They engaged in conversation. The work man related his history, and showed how small were his wages, and what privations he had to undergo in order to live upon them. This made Mario reflect How comes it, he asked himself, that this charming valley, which seems a corner of Paradise, should conceal such misery? Is the fault in man or in nature? “Until now I have been admiring the power of machinery and the marvels of the factory, without ever inquiring into the lot of those employed therein. I have been calculating the amount of the products, without ever seeking to know how * Among the German socialistic writings prior to 1848 may be also cited, Destruction and Reconstruction, or the Present and Future.” by Michael (Stuttgart, 1846) ; “ The Condition of the Working Classes in England, by Frederick Engels (Leipzig, 1845). This latter work con tains some interesting facts taken from the English inquiries into the subject, and is in part the source from which Karl Marx drew his ideas. t Untersuchungen über die Organisation der Arbeit oder System der iVeltœkotiomie.

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