New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-20

Education, Labor and Subsistence. There can be
no indrpe ndent electoral body without these three
conditions. ,.u
Bv this means, doubtless, all the combinations
of the old parties, Protestant, Liberal, ha1ica',
Republican and even Revolutionary, have peen
thwarted. But neither Louis Blanc, nor O ds~
nor Leroux nor ConsideraDt, nor even ,v 1a
whatever be the faults and unpardonao.ss ;o sact
Of the last named, are the cause o. I a, a.,
They did not bring it forth. They dld put uHu .h
stand and state il. and opening the eyes OF .he
European Democracy upon the cnaiactsI vi we
s;tuation of its own real wants, ana IT'S Vny way
of salvation they did no more thah 'u'n' ''e"
duty. Az .o,rt;o,srv S.c;sl.
;st, do we find there any more harmony and mu-
final understandings better political organiza-
toni .e..
Alas! | am forced to svow that confusion relgns
in their ranks. Their work is still chaos, and II
Il be true that creation commences by chaos,
we must surmise that we are on the eve OF a pref
~ magnificent creation. Accusations abound
against the Socialists respecting their intestine or
public divisions. Those who accuse them, GER
tainly have no right to do it, for they are them
selves divided, and by their divisions, 1t IS not
school they have dissolved, nor the formation OF
IN unimpertant association they have prevented,
but it is shedrevoution which they have lost.
They sought for the Republic and for power oy
the grace Of universal suffrage. They have nad
universal suffrage; and universal suffrage mas
turned them out Of power and destroyed the ne
public. .. co;.,
The principal divisions OF revolutionary social
nm can be established in the following manner:
louis Blanc, CADET, Pierre Leroux and Their
adherents. founders Of the Socialist Union, an
association formed in London with the view oil an
intellectual propaganda OF their principles and OF
the education OF the masses by the exposition and
explanation Of the same principles;
The partsans Of direct government by the peo,
nile. through communal assemblies, who disregard
psri,aments and conventions. They represent
those whom Mazzin calls in his manifesto, the
partisaps of God knOws-what system OF com.
nuaes ftet6es (beheaded townships). This Is an
idea produced by Rittinghausen, and to winch,
am sorry, must add CODsderant, as appears by
one of his recent publicet ions. In general, TINS
traction of revolutionary Socialists does not ac-
knowledge any chiefs. 1t rejects indlvidualites,
and does not admit of influences. They say, but
can affirm nothing upon the subject, that Le-
dru.Rollln is going to rally under this flag as be-
ing the flag Of the people.
We will make distinct class Of Proudh0n and
Of those who adopt his mig htmare Of anarchy and
of purely economical revolution. Proddhon ~,
indeed, distinct from other revolutionary Social
ists as he does not want either central Govern
ment, or any Of the nine or less hume rous little
District Governments. tie expects every thing
from an economical revolution destined to gradu-
ely bring movable and immovable property, the
rent of capital and the rent Of land, between two
mills Of the mill of erect exchange oiproi-
ucts for products.
These three opinions, called Socialist, and
which from my personal point of view | consider
GO perfectly anti social, have this in common that
they demand political liberty or rather the des.
truett0a Of ecery G0reTMaeHt as starting point
for Efficient action, which is to secure 10 thc
greatest number education, work and subsistence.
Now, liberty being fvttered and gagged in the
whole of Europe as it has not been for three cen
turies past, to destroy the existing Governments
would be a work Of the most prominent acton
and revolution. :,
Revolutionary action is, accordingly, or should
be, the common ground for all Socialists. In
tend TO take them up successfully on this ground,
in order to demonstrate the Importance OF the
revolution as u social principle, but must give
the revolutionary Socialist party.
JULES LEcHEyAIIER