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far too slavishly before the elementary "economic struggle of the workers against the masters and the government." We professional revolutionaries must continue, and will continue, this kind of "pushing," and a hundred times more forcibly than hitherto. Because you choose so unfortunate a phrase as "pushing on from outside," which cannot but arouse in the worker (at least in the worker who is as undeveloped as you are yourselves) a feeling of mistrust towards all who bring him political knowledge and revolutionary experience from outside, and call forth in him an instinctive desire to resist such people, for that very reason you are demagogues—and a demagogue is the worst enemy of the working class.

Come now! Do not take offense at my "uncomradely method" of arguing. I am not trying to cast aspersions upon the purity of your intentions. As I have already said, one may be a demagogue out of sheer political naivite. But I have shown that you have descended to demagogy, and I shall never tire of repeating that demagogues are the worst enemies of the working class. They are the worst enemies of the working class because they arouse vile instincts in the crowd because the undeveloped worker is unable to recognize his enemies in men who represent themselves, and sometimes sincerely represent themselves, to be his friends. They are the worse enemies of the working class, because in the period of doubt and hesitation, when our movement is only just beginning to