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Ferdinand Lassalle was born on April 11, 1825, Breslau, Poland.
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Ferdinand Lassalle was born on April 11, 1825, Breslau, Poland.
His father sent him to the commercial school at Leipzig; but the boy got himself transferred to the university, first at Breslau, and afterwards at Berlin. He completed his university studies in 1845.
The process, which lasted ten years, gave rise to not a little scandal, especially that of the Cassettengeschichte which pursued Lassalle all the rest of his life. They were prosecuted for theft, one of them being condemned to six months' imprisonment.
Lassalle, accused of moral complicity, was acquitted on appeal.
He was not so fortunate in 1849, when he underwent a year's durance for resistance to the authorities of Diisseldorf during the troubles of that stormy period. But going to prison was a familiar experience in Lassalle's life. Till 1859 Lassalle resided mostly in the Rhine country, prosecuting the suit of the countess, finishing the work on Heraclitus, which was not published till 1858, taking little part in political agitation, but ever a helpful friend of the working men.
The same year he published a remarkable pamphlet on the Italian War and the Mission of Prussia, in which he warned his countrymen against going to the rescue of Austria in her war with France.
He pointed out that if France drove Austria out of Italy she might annex Savoy, but could not prevent the restoration of Italian unity under Victor Emmanuel.
France was doing the work of Germany by weakening Austria; Prussia should form an alliance with France to drive out Austria and make herself supreme in Germany. After their realization by Bismarck these ideas have become sufficiently commonplace, but they were nowise obvious when thus published by Lassalle.
In 1861 he published a great work in two volumes, System der erworbenen Rechte (System of Acquired Rights).
It was early in 1862, when the struggle of Bismarck with the Prussian liberals was already begun. His political program was, however, entirely subordinate to the social, that of bettering the condition of the working classes, for which he believed the schemes of Schulze-Delitzsch were utterly inadequate.
His worst difficulties were with the working men themselves, among whom he met the most discouraging apathy.
In that period he issued about twenty separate publications, most of them speeches and pamphlets, but one of them, that against Schulze-Delitzsch, a considerable treatise, and all full of keen and vigorous thought.
His suppers were well known as among the most exquisite in Berlin.
It was the most piquant feature of his life that he, one of the gilded youth, a connoisseur in wines, and a learned man to boot, had become agitator and the champion of the working man.
In one of the literary and fashionable circles of Berlin he had met a Fraulein von Donniges, for whom he at once felt a passion, which was ardently reciprocated.
In the summer of 1864 he met her again on the Rigi, when they resolved to marry.
This position he founded on the law of wages formulated by Ricardo, and accepted by all the leading economists, that wages are controlled by the ordinary relations of supply and demand, that a rise in wages leads to an increase in the labouring population, which, by increasing the supply of labour, is followed by a corresponding fall of wages.
Thus population increases or decreases in fixed relation to the rise or fall of wages.
The condition of the working man will never permanently rise above the mere standard of living required for his subsistence, and the continued supply of his kind.
Lassalle held that the co-operative schemes of Schulze- Delitzsch on the principle of " self-help " were utterly inadequate, for the obvious reason that the working classes were destitute of capital.
And he held that such association should be the voluntary act of the working men, the government merely reserving the right to examine the books of the various societies.
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In short, Lassalle accepted the orthodox political economy to show that the inevitable operation of its laws left no hope for the working classes, and that no remedy could be found but by abolishing the conditions in which these laws had their validity-in other words, by abolishing the present relations of labour and capital altogether.
Lassalle became the champion of the German working classes and developed a theory of state socialism, which led to the founding of the first workers' political party (Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein) in Germany.
The workers' party that he helped to found later developed into the German Social Democratic Party.