Помогите перевести: It mistook technical development for the current, the direction it believed it was swimming in.
"Nothing was more corrupting for the German workers' movement than the feeling of swimming with the current. It mistook technical development for the current, the direction it believed it was swimming in. From there, there was only one step to take in order to imagine that industrial labor represented a political performance."
PS идите к черту с переводами, типа "засунул в гугл транслейт, доделай сам". Не умеешь перевести - не лезь!