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The Impact of Marx on the Nineteenth Century

Isaiah Berlin

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The Party of the Proletariat

One of mark's doctrines was that the party must, there must be a political party of the proletariat. They mustn't desist from political action, as syndicalists recommended,. lest they be corrupted by bourgeois vanes. So long as you confine yourself to small, bitter, organized conspiracies, such as cut off, for example, recommended and lenin to some extent, implement it. But if you believe in mass parties,  if you believe in part participating in political life, particular in democracies, but really in any country which allows you to do that - then this attitude is possible.

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