Johann Baptist von Schweitzer

Here we have their authentic criticism of the movement up till now, and with it their authentic programme for the line of the new organ, insofar as this depends on them.

Right at the beginning, we read, quote, the movement which Lassalle regarded as an eminently political one, to which he summoned not only the workers but all honest democrats, at the head of which were to march independent representatives of science and all who were imbued with a true love for humanity, was diminished under the presidency of Johann Baptist Schweitzer into a one-sided struggle for the interests of the industrial workers, end quote.

I will not examine whether or how far this is historically accurate.

The special reproach here brought against Schweitzer is that he diminished Lassalleanism, which is here taken as a bourgeois democratic philanthropic movement, into a one-sided struggle for the interests of the industrial workers by deepening its character as a class struggle of the industrial workers against the bourgeoisie.