“…An equal debt is owed to the spirit of German classical philosophy, of the English and French Revolutions, and of the American Declaration of Independence. [] For us, Socialism and Humanism are indissolubly associated. …”

“…He was appointed Prussian Minister of Education in the Weimar Republic. [] It was a middle-class German Socialist "Intellectual" who concluded his Drei Jahre Welt Revolution (Three Years of World Revolution, Constable, 1918) with the threat: [] "What does the French Revolution of 1789 amount to compared with the huge dimensions of the World Revolution of to-day ? …”