Social Revolution - The Seizing of Political Power

Marks wrote that social revolution lay through the seizing of political power. Marks went so far as to say outright that such co operatives were welcomed by their oppressors, because they would distract the workers from the real threat that the workers opposed. But though what every one would later understand to be very marxus language being coted into the dna of the first international, the actual rules of the organization were meant to attract as many affiliates as possible.