ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the unique emotional power of the spoken word. All great, world shaking events have been brought about not by written matter but by the spoken word. The bourgeois intelligentsia protests against such a view only because they themselves obviously lack the power and ability to influence the masses by the spoken word, since they have thrown themselves more and more into purely literary activity and renounced the real agitational activity of the spoken word. The essential point, however, is that a piece of literature never knows into what hands it will fall and yet it must retain its definite form. In general the effect will be the greater, the more this form corresponds to the intellectual level and nature of those very people who will be its readers.
