Note 939 — Chapter XIV · THE FORM-WORLD OF ECONOMIC LIFE (B) THE MACHINE

Compared with this mighty contest between the two handfuls of steel-hard men of race and of immense intellect—which the simple citizen neither observes nor comprehends—the battle of mere interests between the employing class and the workers’ Socialism sinks into insignificance when regarded from the distant world-historical view-point. The working-class movement is what its leaders make of it, and hatred of the owner has long enlisted itself in the service of the bourse. Practical communism with its “class-war”—to-day a long obsolete and adulterated phrase—is nothing but the trusty henchman of big Capital, which knows perfectly well how to make use of it.