>>510845333>The great masses can be rescued, but a lot of time and a great deal of patience must be devoted to such work. A Jew, on the other hand, can never berescued from his fixed notions.
>I was then simple enough to attempt to show them the absurdity of theirteaching. Within my small circle I talked to them until my throat ached and my
voice grew hoarse. I believed that I could finally convince them of the danger
inherent in the Marxist nonsense.
>But I achieved the very opposite. It seemed to me that a growing insightinto the disastrous effects of the Social Democratic doctrine in theory and in
practice only served to strengthen their opposition.
>The more I debated with them the more familiar I became with theirtactics in debate. At the outset they counted upon the stupidity of their
opponents; but when they got so entangled that they could not find a way out,
they played the trick of acting the innocent simpleton.
>Should they fail, in spite of their tricks of logic, they acted as if theycould not understand the counter-arguments and feeling themselves cornered,
hastily transferred the discussion to another field. They uttered truisms and
platitudes; and, if you accepted these, took this acceptance as applying to other
problems and matters differing essentially from the original theme.
>If you cornered them on this point they would escape again, and youcould not force them to make any precise statement.
>Whenever one tried, to get a firm grip on any of these apostles, oneโshand grasped only a slimy jelly which slipped through the fingers, but
coagulated again a moment afterwards.
>If your arguments were so telling that your adversary felt forced to givein on account of those listening and if you then thought that at last you had
gained ground, a surprise was in store for you on the following day.