To-day, in Switzerland, the efforts of the social democrats are directed in politics toward centralization as against federalism, and in the economic field to promoting the state management of railways and the state monopoly of banking and of the sale of spirits.
He discusses the political and economic direction of social democrats in Switzerland, focusing on centralization and state control.
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