LAVELEYE (Émile de) – CONTEMPORARY SOCIALISM, 5th ed. augmented with a new Preface and two chapters on Socialism in England and the State and the Individual
LAVELEYE (Émile de) – CONTEMPORARY SOCIALISM, 5th ed. augmented with a new Preface and two chapters on Socialism in England and the State and the Individual
LAVELEYE (Émile de) – CONTEMPORARY SOCIALISM, 5th ed. augmented with a new Preface and two chapters on Socialism in England and the State and the Individual
    LAVELEYE (Émile de)
    CONTEMPORARY SOCIALISM, 5th ed., augmented with a new Preface and two chapters on Socialism in England and the State and the Individual
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1890
    in-12, green half-leather, gilt title on spine with 5 raised bands decorated with blind and gilt fillets and tools, (spine sunned, headcaps and edges rubbed with small losses, rare underlinings and annotations in pencil), fresh interior, LII-416 p.
    “Kathedersozialismus in French-speaking countries seems to me to be primarily represented at the end of the 19th century by three renowned Belgian sociologists: Émile de Laveleye (from Liège), Hector Denis, and Guillaume de Greef (from Brussels). In the 1880s, Émile de Laveleye read Karl Marx attentively, better than anyone else in French-speaking universities. He rejected Marx's theories, which he considered too “speculative.” In his *Socialisme contemporain*, a scholarly work that has been reprinted many times, he devotes as much space and attention to Lassalle, Colins, and Schäffle, whose theories he does not, however, endorse. It is only to Bakunin, the “apostle of universal destruction,” that Laveleye opposes a horrified *non possumus*. He is very familiar with German “professorial socialism,” with which, however, he does not personally identify.” He cites Nasse, Schmoller, Brentano, Schönberg, Rössler, Dühring, Wagner, Schäffle, Cohn, von Schehl, and Samter: their thought stems from "the desire to see greater equality among men and the conviction that this ideal can only be achieved through legislative intervention." Indeed, these academics have grounded the theoretical arguments in favor of an indefinite expansion of the welfare state and, hostile to revolutionary socialism, have hardly been appreciated by purely doctrinal liberals. Laveleye's interest in socialism is far from approval, but it is not malicious. He provides the workers' movement with two essential guarantees: 1. Recognition of the principled legitimacy of the socialist idea and of its inevitable development within the democratic dynamic. 2. A history of property regimes that shows the historical relativity of capitalist property and makes certain collectivist theses “defensible” in official science.” (Marc Angenot, Rhetoric of Anti-Socialism: An Essay in Discursive History, 1830-1917, Presses de l’Université de Laval, 2004, p. 61 et seq.).

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