Neue Debatte - Special Edition - Long Essay on Left Strategy #002 - 04/2017 | Page 35

5 On the people
firstly boring, hardly understandable, often conceited, and thus of no
interest to common people,
secondly serving as means to awe and impress others just to qualify
for leadership and even personality cults,
thirdly habitually leading to embarrassing quarrels of ”fundamental-
ists” and “realists”, (fundis contra realos and vice versa). Experience
teaches that such splits inevitably happen to movements that open a
front in parliament. We surely will have to consult the long tradition
of left parliamentary work not to repeat former mistakes.
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