WE SEE, THEN, THAT THE CHIEF CAUSE OF THE BREAK-UP OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL WAS TO BE FOUND IN THE FACT THAT THE COLONIAL POLICY AND THE MONOPOLIST POSITION OF THE GREAT STATE CAPITALIST TRUSTS, HAD ATTACHED THE WORKERS — AND ESPECIALLY THE “UPPER STRATA” OF THE WORKING CLASS — TO THE IMPERIALIST BOURGEOIS STATE.
In the history of the working-class movement it has often happened that the workers have made common cause with their oppressors. For example, in the very early stages of development, the worker who sat at the same table with his master, looked upon his master’s workshop almost as if it had been his own, and regarded his master not as an enemy but as a “giver of work.” Only in course of time did the workers in various factories come to unite one with another against all the masters. When the great countries had themselves been converted into “State capitalist trusts,” the workers continued