 However, "the most important ruptures are to be traced to the insurgency during and after the First World War.Disillusioned with the capitulation of the social democrats, excited by the emergence of workers' councils, and slowly distanced from Leninism, many communists came to reject the claims of socialist parties and to put their faith instead in the masses".For these socialists, "[t]he intuition of the masses in action can have more genius in it than the work of the greatest individual genius".