German Socialism and Ferdinand Lassalle: A Biographical History of German Socialistic Movements During this Century

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S. Sonnenschein, 1899 - 300 pages
 

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Page 111 - In the former case, we had the expropriation of the mass of the people by a few usurpers; in the latter, we have the expropriation of a few usurpers by the mass of the...
Page 56 - State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government Of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and...
Page 235 - Finally, they labor everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries. The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Page 234 - The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and naturally can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women.
Page 249 - ... humanitarian movements in that it proceeds from the assumption that the amelioration of the condition of the working classes is impossible on the basis of the present social system, and can only be attained by the social revolution spoken of. This social revolution is to be effected by the cooperation of the working classes of all states, with the simultaneous subversion of the existing constitutions. The movement has especially taken this revolutionary and international character since the foundation...
Page 250 - ... of agitation and by destroying its organization; and it must do this unless it is willing to surrender its existence, and unless there is to grow up amongst the population the conviction either that the state is impotent or that the aims of social democracy are justifiable. * * * Social democracy has declared war against the state and society, and has proclaimed their subversion to be its aim. It has forsaken the ground of equal right for all, and it can not complain if the law should only be...
Page 124 - Die arbeitenden Klassen und das Associationswesen in Deutschland, als Programm zu einem deutschen Congress...
Page 17 - IT is impossible not to see that the legislation begun by Stein and afterwards continued by Hardenberg was similar in its durable results to the work of the French Revolution. It accomplished changes of the same kind and comparable in extent, though by a perfectly regular process. We may imagine that if, when Turgot was Comptroller General, the privileged classes of France had been too much terrified by the effect of some disaster to resist his innovations, or the King had stood by him as Louis XIII....
Page 10 - discovered where the roots of social evil lie. He has declared in words that burn that it is the duty of the state to give heed, above all, to the welfare of its weaker members.

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