The force which gave Marxism its amazing power over the masses is not the formal written work prepared by Jewish intellectuals, but rather the vast flood of oratorical propaganda which has dominated the masses in the course of years ; out of a hundred thousand German workers not more than a hundred know of Marx’s book, which was studied by a thousand times more of the intellectual classes—especially by Jews— than by genuine adherents of the Movement in the lower grades. That book was not written for the masses but exclusively for the intellectual leaders of the Jewish machine for conquering the world ; the agitation was conducted with very different material. This is what marks the difference between the Marxist and our bourgeois Press. The Marxist Press was written by agitators, whilst the bourgeois Press pre¬ ferred to conduct agitation through its writers.
It is all one with the silly ignorance of the world shown by our German intelligentzia that they believe that a writer is bound to be an orator’s superior in intellect. This view is most delightfully illustrated in MY STRUGGLE X9X an article in a certain Nationalist paper, in which it is stated that one is so often disillusioned on seeing a speech by some admittedly great orator in print. I recollect another article which came into my hands during the War ; it seized on the speeches of Lloyd George, then Minister of Munitions, examined them as under a microscope, only to come to the brilliant conclusion that those speeches showed inferiority of intellect and knowledge, and were otherwise banal and commonplace. I obtained some of those speeches bound in a small volume, and had to laugh out loud at the thought that an ordinary German quill-driver failed to see the point of those psychological master¬ pieces in the way of influencing the public. The fellow judged the speeches solely by the impression they made on his blase intellect, whereas the great British demagogue had been able to produce an immense effect by their aid on his audiences, and in the widest sense on the whole of the British lower classes. From this point of view, that Welshman’s speeches were most wonderful achievements, for they evinced amazing knowledge of the