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68: Robert Michels - The Iron Law of Oligarchy

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The German Social Democracy and the Relationship Between Employee and Employer

Mikkel: The practice of paying for the service is rendered to the party by its employees, creates a bond which many of the comrades hesitate to break. He says pecuniary remuneration for services to the party immunizes the party employees against the grosser forms of temptation. And so far as the wage earner becomes dependent upon his employer for his own survival and is therefore in a state of coercion.

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