CHAPTER I
WORLD THEORY AND PARTY IT was clear that the new Movement could not hope to attain the importance and strength required for the great struggle, unless it succeeded from the very start in planting in the hearts of its adherents the noble conviction that it was not supplying political life with a new election cry, but that it presented a new view of the world as a principle.
It should be reflected what wretched motives are normally at the bottom of “Party programmes”, when these are polished up from time to time and remodelled. One motive there is which constantly drives them either to introduce new ones or to alter existing ones —the anxiety about the result of the next Elections.
Once the Elections are over the Member—who is elected for five years—goes each morning to the House, not perhaps right inside, but at any rate as far as the hall in which the attendance lists are placed.
His fatiguing service in the people’s cause leads him to sign his name, and in return for this exhausting effort, daily repeated, he accepts a small honorarium as his well-earned reward.
There is hardly anything so depressing as to watch all that goes on in Parliament in its sober reality and to have to look on at this constantly repeated betrayal.
Such intellectual soil is not likely to produce strength in the camp of the bourgeoisie to fight the organized forces of Marxism. Indeed, gentlemen in Parliament are not giving serious thought to it.