The New World Order of Islam — Page 15
New World Order 15 pay than I am getting. I beg, therefore, that my pay should be raised, or. " "Or, what, thou varlet?" thundered the master, administering a smart cut with his whip. "Or, I shall carry on as I am," whimpered the terrified groom. All his determination to secure a rise by threat of leaving his master evaporated as the result of just one stroke of the whip. It is quite true that long suffering and privation deprive people of their stamina and will. I myself have tried to create some sort of ambition, some desire for improvement in the depressed classes. They will listen patiently but remark in the end with a somewhat superior smile, "God has ordered things as they are; it is no use trying to alter them. " As if anybody who attempts to change or reform the existing order must be out of his mind. It is this attitude which led Karl Marx to observe that it was dangerous to vest workers and masses with direct authority in the beginning. According to him it was necessary to start with a dictatorship under which workers should be organized and educated and all class distinctions removed so that the next generation should grow up in an atmosphere of equality, and without any sense of inferiority. It is only then that political authority should be vested in the masses. Premature transfer of authority might put the whole movement in jeopardy.