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He had already become a familiar figure in Mu­ nich, a respectable and amiable citizen-king, but in no sense of the word a commanding personality. Ludwig could be fa­ cetiously blamed for the thin beer of the war years or ac­ cused of profiting personally by the sale of dairy products from his model farm at Leutstetten (a rumor pointedly de­ nied by government spokesmen), but he was scarcely respon­ sible for the economic hardships of the entire state. He was also criticized for selling out Bavarian interests to Prussia and for toadying to the Kaiser, even though this had less to do with Ludwig and more with the Central Economic Plan­ ning Board and the Bismarckian constitution.

THE ORIGINS OF REVOLUTION schaft) was founded with the goal of storing two to three million tons of foodstuffs in order to meet any future emer­ gency. These and similar measures ordered from Munich soon proved to be ineffective and incomplete. Accordingly, on February 1, 1915, a National Grain Office (Reichsgetreidestelle) was invested by the Berlin government with authority to establish a maximum quota for local consumption in the state, and to arrange for the confiscation of surplus. The pol­ icy of agricultural quotas and prices was henceforth formu­ lated in Berlin and enforced in Bavaria under the supervision of federal officials.

For the whole problem see Karl Vorlander, Kant und Marx. Ein Beitrag zur Philosophie des Sozialismus (Tu­ bingen, 1911), 117-130, 152-154. " He refused to concede that there was any logical inconsistency in holding that Socialism was both scientifically determined and ethically desirable, a position from which he never re­ treated throughout the revisionist debate of the following decade. Eisner was, however, no logician, and he tended to equate—or to confuse—his own idealism with the terms of Kantian philosophy.