ABSTRACT
Month by month there is a decline in the standard of socialist writing in Germany. It is becoming more and more restricted to the pathetic effusions of those so-called “true socialists” the sum of whose knowledge is simply a mixture of German philosophy and German bourgeois sentimentality served up with a few poor communist catch-phrases. These scribblers flaunt their ineffectual policy in so obvious a manner that they are able to spout forth their innermost thoughts in spite of the censorship. The fact that the German censor finds virtually nothing objectionable in their effusions is proof enough that the authors belong to the stolid reactionary wing of German literature and have no connection with the progressive and revolutionary wing. These “true Socialists” include not only those who call themselves “socialists” but also most German writers who have adopted the “communist” party label. The latter are, if anything, more miserable specimens than the former.
