[[103]]
Protokoll des Parteitags zu Bremen, 1904, p. 186.
[[104]]
“In any case, since, in view of their responsibilities to the party, their presence at the
congress may be indispensable, it should not be made necessary for them to go about
begging for a mandate” (Protokoll des Parteitags zu Berlin, 1890, p. 122).
[[105]]
“Avanti,” No. 3433. Nevertheless, in these other countries the leading roles in the
socialist congresses are played by the parliamentary representatives.
[[106]]
The declaration made by the party executive in the affair of the “Leipziger
Wolkszeitung” begins as follows: “On Saturday, the 10th inst., when, after the speech of
comrade von Vollmar, the Imperial Chancellor brought up for discussion the subject of the
article in the 'Leipziger Volkszeitung' of December 2nd, those members of the parliamentary
group who were present agreed to instruct comrade Bebel to state in his speech that the
group regretted the publication of this article and repudiated responsibility for it.”
[[107]]
“In the socialist party, owing to the nature of the matters with which it has to deal and
owing to the characteristics of the political struggle, narrower limits are imposed upon
bureaucracy than in the case of the trade-union movement” (Rosa Luxemburg, Massenstreik,
Partei, and Gewerkschaften, ed, cit., p. 61). This cautious expression of the differences may
be accepted.
[[108]]
Heinrich Ströbel for instance, a writer on the staff of “Vorwarts.” “We at least do not
believe that the majority of trade-union members favour tactics differing from those pursued
by the trade-union officials. Unfortunately the majority of the trade unions, owing to the
'neutrality' which they have observed for some years, have become politically indifferent,
and judge the trade-union movement in practice only from the outlook of the petty and
immediate interest of their respective trades” (H. Ströbel, Gewerkschaften und sozialistische
Geist, “Neue Zeit,” xxiil, vol. ii, No. 44).
[[109]]
Kautsky, Konsumvereine und Arbetterbevegung, ed. cit., p. 17.
[[110]]
Trans. from “Pourquoi pas?” Brussels, anno ii, No. 97.
[[111]]
Karl Rodbertus, Offener Brief an das Komitee des deutschen Arbeitervereins zu Leipzig,
in F. Lassalle's Politische Reden und Schriften, ed. cit., vol. ii, p. 9.
[[112]]
Robertus, op cit. p. 9.
[[113]]
M. Beer's report on the 9th annual congress of the British Labour Party, Fränkische
Tagespost,” anno xli, No. 28 (1909).
[[114]]
Rinaldo Rigola, I Funzionari delle Organizzazioni, “Avanti,” anno xiv, No. 341.
[[115]]
Cf. the excellent description given by Albert Weidner, Bebel, “Der Arme Teufel,” anno
ii, No. 21 (1903).
[[116]]
E. Fournière, La sociocratie, ed. cit., p. 117.
[[117]]
Eduard Bernstein, Gewerkschaftsdemokratie, “Sozial. Monatsh.,” 1909, p. 86.
[[118]]
This speech was made in a Convegno pro Amnistia on March 31, 1908, reported in the
Turin “Stampa,” xvii, No. 92.
