[The Malady of the Century by Max Nordau]@TWC D-Link bookThe Malady of the Century CHAPTER IX 48/61
It is not fighting for a conviction, but for the supremacy of a certain class." "'It is impossible,' is no argument.
In point of fact, I do not hold with your doctrines.
I know that the working-classes suffer, but I do not know why, and I do not believe your theorists when they say it is all because the workingman is ground down by the capitalist. Furthermore, you speak of leading--where am I to lead you to ?" "To victory against the plundering feudalism of the State." "That is a mere phrase.
I know of no plan which will sweep poverty and distress from the face of the earth.
Even if you raise a revolution and it succeeds, even if you destroy the feudal State and build up a workingman's State upon the ruins, you will thereby only have improved the condition of a select few, not of the whole--not even of the many. I would not like to be in the shoes of your present leaders, preachers and prophets, when you have conquered, and your followers demand to see the results of your victory.
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