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The minority puts a dogmatic view in place of the<br />
critical, and an idealist one in place of the materialist. They<br />
regard mere discontent, instead of real conditions, as the<br />
driving wheel of revolution. Whereas we tell the workers:<br />
You have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and<br />
national struggles, not only in order to change conditions<br />
but also to change yourselves and make yourselves capable<br />
of political rule; you, on the contrary, say: "We must<br />
come to power immediately, or else we may as well go to<br />
sleep." Whilst we make a special point of directing the<br />
German workers' attention to the underdeveloped state of<br />
the German proletariat, you flatter the national feeling and<br />
the status-prejudice of the German artisans in the crudest<br />
possible way - which, admittedly is more popular. Just as<br />
the word "people" has been made holy by the democrats,<br />
so the world "proletariat" has been made holy by you.<br />
Karl Marx - on the 1850 split in<br />
the German Communist League<br />
3rd Edition<br />
Originally published under the title "Mythology of the White Proletariat: A Short Course in Understanding<br />
Babylon"<br />
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