Kautsky strongly protests against Ritting hausen's primitive conception of democracy; he ridicules those who in the name of democracy demand that 'popular newspapers shall be directly edited by the people'; he shows the need for professional journalists, parliamentarians, etc., for the Social Democratic leadership of the proletarian class struggle; he attacks the 'socialism of anarchists and litterateurs,' who in their 'striving after effect' proclaim the principle that laws should be passed directly by the whole people, completely failing to understand that in modern society this principle can have only a relative application.