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Title: Socialismo O Monopolismo Author: Freedom Press, Anonymous Date: February, 1887 Language: en Topics: Freedom Press, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism Source: Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism, Vol. 1, No. 5, online source http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=3132, retrieved on May 2, 2020. Notes: Freedom Press, London
We would call the attention of those among our readers who know Italian,
to the above work, just published by our comrade S. Merlino. It is a
most useful text-book of Anarchist Socialism, and we hope it may shortly
make its appearance in English dress.
The author begins by pointing out that our present economic system, in
spite of so-called free competition, and other delusive appearances of
freedom, is founded upon monopoly. By monopoly he understands the
individual appropriation of the wealth of the community by persons who
make use of this property to obtain for themselves the fruits of other
people's labor. The first part of the book describes the growth of this
monopoly ; the second consists of an examination of the doctrines of the
economist, and exposes current fallacies in relation to the private
appropriation of wealth.
The third portion devoted to the evolution of Anarchist Communism. Our
comrade exhibits this form of Socialism as the logical outcome of the
progressive elements already at work within our existing society, and
the only practical satisfaction for our present needs. He then deals
with the stock objections of the admirers of things as they are ; e.g.,
the absence of any stimulus to exertion in a communistic society, the
want of individuality which some folks imagine to be ell engendered by
economic equality, etc. He contrasts with such futile objections the
impracticability and uselessness of so-called practical reforms in
economics and politics, considered as a means of bringing about a
radical change in the basis of society ; and ends by affirming Anarchy
as the scientific social ideal of our times.
B. Tucker, of Boston, Mass., is issuing in monthly parts a complete
English edition of Proudhon's Works.