Contemporary Socialism

State socialism has been described by M. Léon Say as a German philosophy which was natural enough to a people with the political history and habits of the Germans, but which, in...

closing this chapter, of what has been before stated--that I am using the word wages, not in the sense of a quantity, but in the sense of a proportion. When I say that wages fal...

Socialism being now revolutionary social democracy, we should expect to find it most widely and most acutely developed in those countries where, 1st, the social condition of the...

In opening the present chapter in the previous edition of this book, I said it was not a little remarkable that the works of Karl Marx, which had then excited considerable commo...

The renewal of the socialist agitation has not been unproductive of advantage, for it has led to a general recognition that the economic position of the people is far from satis...

Haxthausen pronounced a confident opinion in 1847, when most of the continental nations were agitated with rumours of revolution, that Russia at any rate was safe from the dange...

German socialism is--it is hardly too much to say--the creation of Ferdinand Lassalle. Of course there were socialists in Germany before Lassalle. There are socialists everywher...

It was a common topic of congratulation at the Exhibition of 1862 that the political atmosphere of Europe was then entirely free from the revolutionary alarms which overclouded...

The idea that a radical affinity exists between Christianity and socialism in their general aim, in their essential principles, in their pervading spirit, has strong attractions...

The Socialists of the Chair have done themselves injustice and sown their course with embarrassing misconceptions by adopting too hastily an infelicitous name. It is more descri...

Marlo and Rodbertus are sometimes spoken of as the precursors of German socialism. This, however, is a mistake. The socialism which now exists appeared in Germany among the Youn...

Mr. George sent his "Progress and Poverty" into the world with the remarkable prediction that it would find not only readers but apostles. "Whatever be its fate," he says, "it w...

The latest offspring of revolutionary opinion--and the most misshapen--is anarchism. Seven or eight years ago the word was scarcely known; but then, as if on a sudden, rumours o...

M. Léon Say on State Socialism, 345--State Property and State Industries in Germany, 345--Mr. Goschen and others on Change in English Opinion regarding State Intervention, 346--...

Mr. George Predicts that his Book would find Apostles, 441--Fulfilment of the Prediction, 441--Sisyphism, 442--Loses His Religious Belief through Perception of Poverty, 443--Rec...

Haxthausen's Opinion of Russia's Safety from Socialism, 259--Successive Phases of Nihilism, 260--Origin of Nihilism, 261--Influence of the Rural Commune on Revolutionary Thought...

A Social Question recognised by Contemporary Economists, 297--Mr. Cairnes on the Situation, 297--Socialist Indictment of Existing _Régime_, 299--1st, the "Iron Law of Wages," 30...

German Socialists before Lassalle, 93--Favourable Conditions for Socialist Agitation in Germany, 94--Character of Lassalle, 96--The Hatzfeldt Case, 99--Theft of the _Cassette_,...

Reception of his Work on Capital, 128--The Young Hegelians, 130--Feuerbach's Humanism, 131--"Young Germany," 136--Weitling and Albrecht, 137--Early Socialistic Leanings of Marx,...

National Conditions Favourable to Socialism, 30--Germany, 30--Progress of Socialist Vote, 33--Action of Socialist Party in Reichstag, 34--Party Programme, 38--Halle Congress of...

Rodbertus, 179--Professor Winkelblech (Marlo), 180--His Awakening to Social Misery, 180--Application to Economic Study for Solution, 181--View of Social Problem, 182--Heathen Id...

Socialism and Christianity, 218--Views of St. Simon and Cabet, 218--Irreligious Character of Contemporary Socialism, 219--The Christian Socialists of England in 1850, 220--Those...

Revival of Socialism, 1--Extinction of Old Types, 2--Main Surviving Type, Social Democracy, 3--Its Two Varieties, Socialist and Anarchist, 4--Its Relations to Political Democrac...

The Name, 195--Held's Vindication of it, 196--Objections to it, 197--Founders of the Historical School, 200--Their Departure from Manchester Party, 202--Eisenach Congress, 202--...

Recent Activity of Anarchists, 247--Individualist Anarchists and Communist Anarchists, 248--Latter are Ultra-Socialist, 249--Ultra-Democratic, 250--Proudhon's Anarchic Governmen...