For more than a generation the important thing was to advertise Socialism and to inculcate a few doctrinal truths.

This naturally developed a literature based on broad assertions, sensational exposures, vigorous denunciations, and revival-like appeals that resulted in sectarian organization.
"It has been hard to break away from this stage.

It is easier to make a propaganda of 'sound and fury' than of practical achievement.

Once the phrases have been learned, it is much simpler to issue a manifesto than to organize a precinct.

It always requires less effort to talk about a class struggle than to fight it; to defy the lightning of international class rule than to properly administer a township.