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ities and other parties, he endeavors to raise himself
 to a similar level and to combine in himself a
knowledge of working class circles and a freshness
of Socialist conviction with the professional training
without which the proletariat cannot conduct a
determined struggle against the excellently trained
ranks of its enemies. It is thus, and only thus,
that Bebels and Auers are thrown up out of the
working class mass. But what to a large extent
takes place automatically in politically free countries
 must in our country be performed by our
organizations sydtematically. A working class
agitator who in any way shows talent and “promise”
should not work eleven hours a day in a factory.
We should see to it that he lives on the funds of
the Party, that he is able in good time to adopt an
illegal manner of existence, that he has the opportunity
 of changing his sphere of activities; otherwise
 he will not gain experience, he will not broaden
his outlook, and will not be able to hold out for at
most several years in the struggle against the
police. The wider and more profound the elemental
movement of the masses is, the more will they throw
up not only talented agitators, but also talented
organizers, propagandists and practitioners of the
best kind (of which there are so few among our
intellectuals, the greater part of whom, after our
Russian fashion, are rather indolent and stolid).
When we have companies of specially trained
worker revolutionaries who have passed through
a long course of schooling (revolutionaries, of

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