ABSTRACT
The democracy has an inherent preference for the authoritarian solution of important questions. Democracy is even regarded as the worst of all the bourgeois regimes. There is little difference, as far as practical results are concerned, between individual dictatorship and the dictatorship of a group of oligarchs. The attempt to make dictatorship serve the ends of democracy is tantamount to the endeavor to utilize war as the most efficient means for the defense of peace, or to employ alcohol in the struggle against alcoholism. The youthful German labor party had hardly succeeded in detaching itself, at the cost of severe struggles, from the bourgeois democracy, when one of its sincerest friends drew attention to certain urgent dangers. The danger is imminent lest the social revolution should replace the visible and tangible dominant classes which exist and act openly, by a clandestine demagogic oligarchy, pursuing its ends under the cloak of equality.
