From The Spirit of the Age, another early translation from the French socialist movement, the “Socialist’s Catechism,” by Louis Blanc. Like the excerpts from Proudhon’s Confessions of a Revolutionist, this originally appeared in the London Weekly Tribune. This is unabashed state socialism, but it’s an important example of it, from one of the most active socialist spokespeople of the 1848 era.
I ran across this one-act parody of French socialism in the January 5, 1850 issue of La Mode, a popular magazine, and was nearly finished with this (rough) translation before I realized that most of […]
Just another of those interesting definitions of “socialism,” from the mid-19th century. This particular passage is from Proudhon’s posthumously published study of Napoleon III: [ezcol_1half] “Qui dit socialisme, dans le bon et vrai sens du […]