Secondly, within a few years, it would give to the masses of the population, according to their abilities, all the education needed to fill _from the ranks of the non-capitalistic classes_ a proportion of all the most desirable and important positions in the community, corresponding to their numbers, and would see to it that they got these positions.
It is undoubtedly the opinion of the most representative figures of the international Socialist movement that there is not the slightest possibility that any of the non-Socialist reformers of to-day or of the near future are following or will follow any such policy, or even take the slightest step in that direction; and that there is nothing Socialists can do to force such a policy on the capitalists until they are actually or practically in power.

Society may continue to progress, but it is surely inconceivable to any close observer, as it is inconceivable to the Socialists, that the privileged classes will ever consent, without the most violent struggle, to a program which, viewed as a whole, would lead, _however gradually or indirectly_, to a more equitable distribution of wealth and political power.
FOOTNOTES: [90] Kautsky, "The Capitalist Class" (pamphlet).
[91] Marx's letters to Sorge.
[92] Marx's letters to Sorge..