ABSTRACT
The great struggles which go on among the leaders on behalf of one tactical method or another, struggles in fact for supremacy in the party, but carried out in the name of Marxism, reformism, or syndicalism, but leave them altogether cold. Although Karl Marxa party leader in the fullest sense of the term, and although endowed to the highest degree with the qualities necessary for leadership, he thought it necessary to warn the German workers against entertaining too rigid a conception of organization. The crowd may abandon the leaders at the very moment when these are preparing for energetic action. The failure of innumerable strikes and political agitations is explained very simply by the opportune action of the authorities, who have placed the leaders under lock and key. As for the leaders of the highest grade, they are simply stifled under the honorary positions which are showered upon them.
