sosyalizm/sosyalizm

• there are two socialisms.
• one is communistic, the other solidaritarian.
• one is dictatorial, the other libertarian.
• one is metaphysical, the other positive.
• one is dogmatic, the other scientific.
• one is emotional, the other reflective.
• one is destructive, the other constructive.
• both are in pursuit of the greatest possible welfare for all.
• one aims to establish happiness for all, the other to enable each to be happy in his own way.
• the first regards the state as a society sui generis, of an especial essence, the product of a sort of divine right outside of and above all society, with special rights and able to exact special obediences; the second considers the state as an association like any other, generally managed worse than others.
• the first proclaims the sovereignty of the state, the second recognizes no sort of sovereign.
• one wishes all monopolies to be held by the state; the other wishes the abolition of all monopolies.
• one wishes the governed class to become the governing class; the other wishes the disappearance of classes.
• both declare that the existing state of things cannot last.
• the first considers revolutions as the indispensable agent of evolutions; the second teaches that repression alone turns evolutions into revolution.
• the first has faith in a cataclysm.
• the second knows that social progress will result from the free play of individual efforts.
• both understand that we are entering upon a new historic phase.
• one wishes that there should be none but proletaires.
• the other wishes that there should be no more proletaires.
• the first wishes to take everything away from everybody.
• the second wishes to leave each in possession of its own.
• the one wishes to expropriate everybody.
• the other wishes everybody to be a proprietor.
• the first says: ‘do as the government wishes.’
• the second says: ‘do as you wish yourself.’
• the former threatens with despotism.
• the latter promises liberty.
• the former makes the citizen the subject of the state.
• the latter makes the state the employee of the citizen.
• one proclaims that labor pains will be necessary to the birth of a new world.
• the other declares that real progress will not cause suffering to any one.
• the first has confidence in social war.
• the other believes only in the works of peace.
• one aspires to command, to regulate, to legislate.
• the other wishes to attain the minimum of command, of regulation, of legislation.
• one would be followed by the most atrocious of reactions.
• the other opens unlimited horizons to progress.
• the first will fail; the other will succeed.
• both desire equality.
• one by lowering heads that are too high.
• the other by raising heads that are too low.
• one sees equality under a common yoke.
• the other will secure equality in complete liberty.
• one is intolerant, the other tolerant.
• one frightens, the other reassures.
• the first wishes to instruct everybody.
• the second wishes to enable everybody to instruct himself.
• the first wishes to support everybody.
• the second wishes to enable everybody to support himself.
• one says:
  • the land to the state.
  • the mine to the state.
  • the tool to the state.
  • the product to the state.
• the other says:
  • the land to the cultivator.
  • the mine to the miner.
  • the tool to the laborer.
  • the product to the producer.
  • there are only these two socialisms.

• one is the infancy of socialism; the other is its manhood.
• one is already the past; the other is the future.
• one will give place to the other.
• today each of us must choose for the one or the other of these two socialisms, or else confess that he is not a socialist.

liberty v, 10 (december 17, 1887), no. 114, p. 5.

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