Sie hat zum erstenmal eine dauernde Massenorganisation der Arbeiter geschaffen und dadurch dem Klassenkampf ein festes Rückgrat gegeben. ###>Of course through the theoretical analysis of the social conditions of struggle, Social Democracy has introduced the element of consciousness into the proletarian class struggle to an unprecedented degree; it gave the class struggle its clarity of aim; it created, for the first time, a permanent mass workers’ organisation, and thus built a firm backbone for the class struggle.