high intellectual ability are served by a large mass of men who
are emotionally devoted to the cause. To maintain discipline in a
company of two hundred men who are equally intelligent and
capable would turn out more difficult in the long run than in a
company of one hundred and ninety less gifted men and ten who
have had a higher education.
The SocialDemocrats have profited very much by recognizing
this truth. They took the broad masses of our people who had just
completed military service and learned to submit to discipline,
and they subjected this mass of men to the discipline of the
SocialDemocratic organization, which was no less rigid than the
discipline through which the young men had passed in their
military training. The SocialDemocratic organization consisted
of an army divided into officers and men. The German worker
who had passed through his military service became the private
soldier in that army, and the Jewish intellectual was the officer.
The German trade union functionaries may be compared to the
noncommissioned officers. The fact, which was always looked
upon with indifference by our middleclasses, that only the so
called uneducated classes joined Marxism was the very ground
on which this party achieved its success. For while the bourgeois
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