The New World Order of Islam — Page 13
New World Order 13 on an entirely fresh orientation from the doctrines propounded by Karl Marx. This man was a German, Jew by race and Christian by faith. After anxious thought he arrived at the conclusion that the policy advocated by Socialism, that of persuading the capitalist classes by pressure was too slow and could not be expected to achieve the desired end within a reasonable length of time. He believed that it was futile to expect that those, who wielded political power, would be willing to reform themselves as the result merely of social or political pressure. He advocated that the only effective way of bringing about reform was for workers to seize power. Instead of carrying on agitation over a number of years for specific reforms and improvements, it would be far more effective for workers to take possession of the machinery of government and to carry out wholesale reform in the social, economic and political spheres. He, therefore, urged their direct participation in the political sphere with the object of seizing political power by means of which a complete social and economic revolution could be achieved. Marxism is thus a development of International Socialism which aims at the achievement of its objects through political revolution rather than through economic change. It also points out that one reason for the failure of Socialism is that socialists