It was not so much the downright rejection of 'grand phrases' that the heroes of this period engaged in as in the vulgarization of these phrases: scientific socialism ceased to be an integral revolutionary theory and became a hodge podge idea 'freely' diluted with the contents of every new German textbook that appeared; the slogan 'class struggle' did not impel them forward to wider and more strenuous activity but served as a soothing syrup, because the 'economic struggle is inseparably linked up with the political struggle'; the idea of a party did not serve as a call for the creation of a militant organization of revolutionaries, but was used to justify some sort of a 'revolutionary bureaucracy' and infantile playing at 'democratic' forms.