Secret History of the International Working Mens Association
Secret History of the International Working Mens Association
William Hepworth Dixon
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Of late years he had given his energies to busi- ness, had improved his fortunes, and been able to assist his brethren in distress. He held on strictly to the communistic theories which he shared with Michael Bakounine, his friend and fellow-exile. In religion Becker and Bakounine were of one mind also; for they preached in many forms and phrases that religious feeling is a morbid growth, the Church a pestilential lazaretto, and the priesthood of all creeds and nations an incarnate fraud. There... was no hope for man, they said, till he abolished God ! Becker wished the International, now become thoroughly communistic, to absorb the League of Peace and Liberty, adopting all its programme and admit- ting all its members, male and female. The terms suggested on behalf of Caesar came 128 THE INTERNATIONAL. Too late. Ere Armand Levi spoke his cause was lost. Napoleon was no longer Cassar. In the minds of these enthusiasts his star had fallen and his power had ceased. " You must understand/' wrote Varlin, '' that the Empire no longer exists, except in name.
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