Club Dutt

Social Democracy emerged from the war with two clearly marked characteristics: first, close unification of each party with its own "national," i.e., imperialist State, and denial of any save the most formal "letter-box" internationalism; second, class-co-operation, in the forms of coalition ministerialism and trade union collaboration, to help to build up capitalist prosperity as the necessary condition of working-class prosperity. It will be seen that these basic principles are already close to the basic principles of "National Socialism."