Note 659 — Chapter V · : PROUDHON AND THE SOCIALISM OF 1848
R. (Robert) Richards translation
Moniteur, April 27, May 2, 3, and 6, 1848. The dismissal of the commission meant an interruption of the Exposé général, but Vidal in his work Vivre en travaillant! Projets, Voires, et Moyens de Réformes sociales (1848) continued the exposition. It contains a plan for agricultural credit, a State land purchase scheme in order to get rid of rent, a proposal for buying up railways and mines and for erecting cheap dwellings. It affords an interesting example of State Socialism in 1848 which seems to have struck many people then as being very amusing.