Oppression and Liberty

It was Descartes, too, who formed the project of a School of Arts and Crafts, where each artisan would learn fully to understand the theoretical bases of his own craft; he thus showed himself to be more socialist, in the matter of culture, than all Marx’s disciples

Such a work is a very distressing mark of the socialist movement’s deficiency in the domain of pure theory.

All genuine revolutionaries have understood that the revolution implies the dissemination of knowledge among the population as a whole.

Socialism will not even be conceivable as long as science has not been stripped of its mystery.

furthermore, of such importance that one step made in this direction would be more useful perhaps to humanity and to the proletariat than a whole host of partial successes in the sphere of action.

Marx wrote in his youth, that “the universal soul of bureaucracy is secrecy, mystery, inwardly through its hierarchical system, outwardly through its character of closed corporation”.

The End of Capitalism; the author, Ferdinand Fried, belonged to that well-known review, Die Tat, which has for a long time advocated a State capitalism, a managed and closed economy, with a dictatorship resting on the twin supports of the trade unions and the national-socialist movement.

Whether as a caste or as a class, bureaucracy is a new factor in the social struggle.

What is serious is that nowhere are the workers organized in an independent manner.