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 From this it is clear, amongst other things, how wrongly the matter is being viewed by those who obscure their own consciousness and that of the workers with the question of what is to become of such prominent authorities of the Second International as Guesde, Plekhanov, Kautsky, etc. Indeed there is no need for such a question. If these persons fail to understand the new problems, they will either have to stand aside or remain, as at present, in bondage to the opportunists. If these people free themselves from their "bondage " there will scarcely exist a political obstacle to their returning to the camp of the revolutionaries. In any case, it is absurd to substitute the question of the part played by individuals for the question of the struggle of currents and of successive stages in the Labour movement.