Note 931 — Chapter II · : STATE SOCIALISM

Wagner’s introduction to Briefe von Lassalle an Rodbertus, p. 5. Lassalle has himself defined this somewhat Machiavellian attitude in a letter written to Marx in 1859, in which he speaks of a drama which he had just written dealing with Franz von Sickingen. “It looks like the triumph of superior realistic ability when the leader of a rebellion takes account of the limited means at his disposal and attempts to hide from other men the real object which he has in view. But the success achieved by deceiving the ruling classes in this way puts him in possession of new forces which enable him to employ this partial triumph for carrying out his real object.” (Aus dem litterarischen Nachlass von K. Marx, F. Engels, und Lassalle, vol. iv, p. 133; published by F. Mehring, Stuttgart, 1902.)