[[146]]
Labruyère, Caractères, Penaud, Paris, p. 156.
[[147]]
Trans. from Gustave le Bon, Psychologie des Foules, ed. cit., p. 106. Cf. also S. G. Hobson, Boodle and Cant, “International Socialist Review,” Chicago, 1902, ii, No. 8, p. 585.
[[148]]
“Love of power, as well as of independence and freedom, are the inherent human
passions.” (Holbach, Systèmes sociales, ou Principes naturelles de la Morale et de la
Politique, Niogret, Paris, 1822, vol. i, p. 196)
[[149]]
Bakunin, Il Socialismo e Mazzini, F. Serantoni, Rome-Florence, 1905, p. 22.
[[150]]
Trans. from Léon Daudet, Alphonse Daudet, ed. cit., p. 179.
[[151]]
Prezzolini, La Teoria sindacalista, Perrella, Naples, 1909, p. 65.
[[152]]
Filippo Media, Il Partita socialista in Italia doll' Internationale al Riformismo, Lib. ed. Florentina, Florence, 1909, p. 46.
[[153]]
From the report in “Het Volk,” v, No. 1341. In the German Protokoll (which, be it
remarked in passing, is extremely inadequate) this passage is not reported. Bebel's
observation is in flat contradiction with what he has frequently said in the Reichstag, that in
his view the carrying of socialism into effect after the victory would be greatly facilitated by
the inevitable adhesion to the various branches of the new administration of numerous
competent elements from the official bureaucracy. (Cf. August Bebel, Zukunftstaat und
Sozialdemokratie. p. 13; speech in Reichstag, February 3, 1893.)
[[154]]
Cf. R. Michels, Il Proletariato e la Borghesia, etc., ed. cit., p. 348; Romeo Soldi. Die
politische Lage in Italien, “Neue Zeit,” xxi, No. 30, p. 116; Giovanni Lerda, Sull'
Organizzazione politico del Partita socialists italiano, a report to the Italian socialist
congress of 1902, Coop. Tip.-Ed., Imola, 1902, p. 10; Filippo Turati, Il Partita socialista e
l'attuale Momenta politico, “Critica Sociale,” Milan, 3rd ed., 1901.
