Our aim, in fact, is not to produce an upheaval in the national camp, but to win the anti-national camp over to our cause. This principle is an absolutely essential one for the tactical direction of the whole Movement.
This consistent, and therefore clear, attitude must be expressed in the propaganda of the Movement, and, moreover, it will be necessary for propagandist reasons.
Both in subject and form, propaganda should be framed so as to reach the mass of the people ; the only means of measuring its correctness is success in practice. In a large popular assemblage the most effective speaker is not he who most resembles the educated section of his audience, but he who captures the hearts of the crowd.
The objective of a Movement of political reform is never attained by laboured explanation or by bringing influence to bear on the powers that be, but only by seizing political power.
But a coup d'etat cannot be regarded as successful if revolutionaries take possession of the administration, but only if the success of the objects and intentions underlying such revolutionary action bring more good to the nation than they enjoyed under the preceding regime ; and this cannot well be said of the “German Revolution’5, as the act of brigandage of the autumn of 1918 is called. But if seizure of political power is the preliminary to practical carrying out of reforms, then a Movement with reforming intentions must, from the first day of its existence, feel itself to be a Movement of the people, and not a literary tea-club or a party of smug little players.
MY STRUGGLE J37 The young Movement is in its essence and organiza¬ tion anti-parliamentarian, i.e., it rejects, in principle and in its