Thomas Kirkup

Name: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16 — Lassalle, Ferdinand
Author: Thomas Kirkup

1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16… (1911)

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“1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16 — Lassalle, Ferdinand”, published in 1911, is a work by Thomas Kirkup. It explores elements such as Lassalle, wages and agitation.

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Thomas Kirkup, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16… (1911)

“ The agitation was growing rapidly, but he had achieved little substantial success when a most unworthy death closed his career.
While posing as the messiah of the poor, Lassalle was a man of decidedly fashionable and luxurious habits. His suppers were well known as among the most exquisite in Berlin. It was the most piquant feature of his life that he, one of the gilded youth, a connoisseur in wines, and a learned man to boot, had become agitator and the champion of the working man. ”

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Thomas Kirkup, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16… (1911)

“ In short, Lassalle accepted the orthodox political economy to show that the inevitable operation of its laws left no hope for the working classes, and that no remedy could be found but by abolishing the conditions in which these laws had their validity—in other words, by abolishing the present relations of labour and capital altogether. And this could only be done by the productive association of the working men with money provided by the state. ”

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Thomas Kirkup, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16… (1911)

“ It was the basis and starting-point of his opinions that, under the empire of capital and so long as the working man was merely a receiver of wages, no improvement in his condition could be expected. This position he founded on the law of wages formulated by Ricardo, and accepted by all the leading economists, that wages are controlled by the ordinary relations of supply and demand, that a rise in wages leads to an increase in the labouring population, which, by increasing the supply of labour, is followed by a corresponding fall of wages. ”

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Thomas Kirkup, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16… (1911)

“ Lassalle, a democrat of the most advanced type, saw that an opportunity had come for asserting a third great cause—that of the working men—which would outflank the liberalism of the middle classes, and might even command the sympathy of the government. ”

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Thomas Kirkup, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16… (1911)

“ The working men were an overwhelming majority; they were the state, and should control the government. The aim of Lassalle, then, was to organize the working classes into a great political power, which in the way thus indicated, by peaceful resolute agitation, without violence or insurrection, might attain the goal of productive association. ”

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Thomas Kirkup, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16… (1911)

“ Thus population increases or decreases in fixed relation to the rise or fall of wages. The condition of the working man will never permanently rise above the mere standard of living required for his subsistence, and the continued supply of his kind. Lassalle held that the co-operative schemes of Schulze-Delitzsch on the principle of “self-help” were utterly inadequate, for the obvious reason that the working classes were destitute of capital. ”

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Thomas Kirkup, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16… (1911)

“ And he held that such association should be the voluntary act of the working men, the government merely reserving the right to examine the books of the various societies. All the arrangements should be carried out according to the rules of business usually followed in such transactions. ”

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Thomas Kirkup, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16… (1911)

“ Lassalle’s Die Philosophie Herakleitos des Dunklen von Ephesos (Berlin, 1858) , and the System der erworbenen Rechte (Leipzig, 1861) are both marked by great learning and intellectual power. But of far more historical interest are the speeches and pamphlets connected with his socialistic agitation, of which the most important are—Ueber Verfassungswesen; Arbeiterprogramm; Offenes Antwortschreiben; Zur Arbeiterfrage; Arbeiterlesebuch ”

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