page 208 note 8) In the address delivered by Mazzini on February 11, 1852 in the founded Society of the Friends of Italy (The Leader, London02 14, 1852, pp. 146–148)Google Scholar and in the article: Devoir de la Démocratic, in the Belgian paper La Nation, Louis Blanc replied in a series of articles (The Leader, February 21 and 28; March 6, 13 and 20; April 17 and May 22.) This controversy lead to the publication of the brochure by Curderoy and Octave Vautier, La Barriére du Combat, which turned both against the antisocialism of Mazzini and the chauvinism of the French socialists. In France George Sand raised a protest and Proudhon wrote a fierce and crushing reply from his prison Sainte-Pélagie. It is not enough, Proudhon exclaimed, that in these last four months in France and throughout Europe cries have been raised to root out the revolutionaries of this age—it is also necessary that you add to it your pastoral instructions and your admonitions, and at such a moment when thousands of citizens, justly or unjustly stamped as socialists, are being expelled, deported, arrested… Let us alone at last, citoyen Mazzini; your task, which you performed so deplorably, has come to an end: you are an encumbrance to the Revolution. (Correspondance de P. J. Proudhon, T. IV. Paris 1875, pp. 262–265). Mazzini remained the proclaimed enemy of Socialism and some years later he was to hold French Socialism once more responsible for the European reaction. “The French Socialism of Fourier, Proudhon and others, who have taught that social reforms may be achieved independently of the form of Government, and thus separated social from political reform, has generated the tyranny which now weighs upon all France, and through France upon all Europe.” (Joseph, Mazzini, The late Genoese Insurrection defended. Parties in Italy: What are they? What have they done? London 1858, p. 25.)Google Scholar In December 1858 the International Association once more turned against Mazzini in an extensive and revolutionary manifesto. See Infra, p. 48. In 1871 Bakunin directed his masterly pamphlet against Mazzini, when the latter had once again attacked Socialism, calumniated the Commune choked in blood, and denounced the International. (Roma del Popolo, July 13, 1871; cf. the text in Alfredo Angiolini, Cinquant Anni di Socialismo in Italia. Firenze 1903, pp. 78 et seq.) Bakunin wrote amongst other things: “It is not for the first time that Mazzini abuses and defames the people of Paris. In 1848, after the memorable June days, which ushered in the era of the socialist working-class movement in Europe and of the proletariat claiming their rights, Mazzini issued a manifesto full of wrath, cursing the Paris working men and Socialism alike. To the workmen of 1848, heroically and sublimely devoted to their cause, like their children of 1871 and like them massacred, imprisoned and transported wholesale by the bourgeois republic, Mazzini repeated all the calumnies which Ledru-Rollin and his other friends, those quasi red republicans of France, had used to gloss in the eyes of the world, or perhaps in their own eyes, their ridiculous and shameful impotence.” (Bakounine, , La Théologie politique de Mazzini et l'Internationale. 1871, p. 15; Euvres VI, Paris 1913, pp. 124–125.) Bakunin's reply to Mazzini, a pamphlet of 32 pp., appeared August 14, 1871, as a supplement to the daily paper Gazettino Rosa at Milan under the title of: Riposta d'un Internazionale a Giuseppe Mazzini, per M. Bakounine, membro dell'Associazione Internazionale dei Lavorati. The impression of Bakunin's reply was considerable, and helped to pave the way for the anti-authoritarian International in Italy.Google Scholar