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can only attaints aim if it is first brought 

 within the minds of the workers themselves 

 by a clear perception of their class interests, 

 and by the force which their union will give 

 them, and that they will not awaken one day 

 into a full socialist regime because divided 

 and inactive on 364 days of the year they 

 revolt on the 365th, or have recourse to some 

 act of personal violence. 



That is what I call the psychology of the 

 "first prize." Many workmen, in fact, 

 imagine that, without doing anything to 

 form themselves into a class conscious party, 

 they will one day gain the first prize, the 

 social revolution, as the manna, it is said, 

 came from Heaven to the Hebrews. 



Scientific socialism has noticed that the 

 power of transformation diminishes as it 

 passes from one- process to another, from 

 evolution to revolution, from the latter to 

 revolt, and from revolt to individual violence. 

 And because it concerns the transformation of 

 the whole of society in its economic basis, and 

 consequently in its juridical, political, and 

 moral organisation, the process of trans- 

 formation is all the more efficacious and the 

 better adapted as it is more social and less 

 individual. 



Individualist parties are centred upon 

 personal considerations even in the daily 

 struggle ; socialism, on the contrary, is 

 collectivist even in that, because it knows that 

 the present organisation does not depend on 

 this or that individual, but on the whole of 

 society. And this is why, from another point 



