Then in 1887 they added a fresh plank to their platform, and asked for the establishment by municipalities, on public money or credit, of productive associations to be owned-not, like the other Undertakings, by the municipality, but-by the working men employed in them.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Mr. Gallenga says that for six months of the year Italy is a national workshop; everybody is out of employment, and has to get work from the State; and he states as the reason for this, that the employing class wants enterprise and ability, and are apt to look to the Government for any profitable Undertakings.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The plans of labour courts and of State credit to approved co-operative Undertakings are far from the socialist schemes of the abolition of private property in the instruments of production, and the systematic regulation of all industry by the State; and they afford no fair ground for the fear, which many persons of ability entertain, of "an alliance"-to use Bismarck's phrase-"between the black International and the red."
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae