This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

Gorter rapidly followed this up with a book of short lyric poetry simply called "Verzen" ("Verses") in 1890 which after the initial bad reviews was equally hailed as a masterpiece. Herman Gorter (November 26 1864 Wormerveer – September 15 1927 Brussels) was a Dutch poet and socialist. He wrote a massive new epic poem called Pan in 1912 describing the First World War being followed by a global Socialist revolution.