German Workers Party

This was apparently too much for Rust, who interrupted to say that Haber may have done a lot for Germany, but the National Socialist German Workers Party had done even more. 

The dilemma for the party is how to train revolutionists who will be close to the workers (and perhaps of worker backgrounds themselves) but who will not be absorbed, contaminated, and weakened by the political and cultural backwardness of the workers. Some of Lenin s worries have to do with his conviction at the time that the Russian working class and most of its socialist intelligentsia were woefully backward compared to their German counterparts. In What Is to Be Done German social democracy and the German trade-union movement function repeatedly as the model, in terms of which Russia is found want-... 

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