[887] Letter to R. Meyer, November 29, 1871. This point of view is developed at length in his “Open Letter to the Committee of the Association of German Workmen at Leipzig,” April 10, 1863, published by Moritz Wirth in the Kleine Schriften.
[888] Letter to R. Meyer, March 12, 1872. Cf. the letters of January 23 and February 3, 1871.
[889] Ibid., November 30, 1871. In 1874 he proposes to offer himself as a socialist candidate for the Reichstag, but recognises that the State must first of all be strengthened on the military side as well as on the religious.
[890] Ibid., October 17, 1872.
[891] Ibid., January 6, 1873.
[892] Ibid., March 10, 1872, and Physiokratie u. Anthropokratie, in Briefe u. Sozialpolitische Aufsätze, pp. 521, 522.
[893] He protests vigorously against the title of Katheder Sozialist in a letter of August 26, 1872. A vigorous criticism of the Socialism of the Chair, written in a private letter of Rodbertus, is quoted at length by Rudolf Meyer in his Emancipationskampf des 4ten Standes, pp. 60-63 (Berlin, 1874).
[894] “Communion or community of labour would be a better term than division of labour” (Kapital, p. 74); and in another connection: “The only real division of labour is territorial division of labour” (ibid.). Elsewhere (p. 87) he warns his readers against confusing the terms “social” and “national.” Adopting the Saint-Simonian philosophy of history, he declares history to be a process of unification which brings gradually widening circles into closer unity with one another (Zur Geschichte der römischen Tributsteuer, in the Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie u. Statistik, 1865, vol. v, p. 2). “The course of history is just the expansion of communism.” (Kapital, p. 85, note.)
[895] Physiokratie u. Anthropokratie, in Briefe u. Sozialpolitische Aufsätze, p. 519.
[896] Schriften, vol. iii, p. 216.