Two weeks later, for the seventh time, we called together the
supporters and friends of the new movement and the same hall
could barely hold the people who had grown to over four
hundred.
It was at this time that the young movement received its inner
form. In the small circle there were sometimes more or less
violent disputes. Various quartersthen as todaycarped at
designating the young movement as a party. In such a conception
I have always seen proof of the critics' practical incompetence
and intellectual smallness. They were and always are the men
who cannot distinguish externals from essentials, and who try to
estimate the value of a movement according to the most
bombasticsounding titles, most of which, sad to say, the
vocabulary of our forefathers must provide.
It was hard, at that time, to make it clear to people that every
movement, as long as it has not achieved the victory of its ideas,
hence its goal, is a party even if it assumes a thousand different
names.
If any man wants to put into practical effect a bold idea whose
realization seems useful in the interests of his fellow men, he will
first of all have to seek supporters who are ready to fight for his
intentions. And if this intention consists only in destroying the
existing parties, of ending the fragmentation, the exponents of
this view and propagators of this determination are themselves a
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