LENIN ON ORGANIZATION
among the workers. Henceforward we must count
with this tendency. How we are to count with it
of this there can be no two opinions among Social
Democrats. We must constantly expose the part
played in this movement by the Zubatovs and the
Vasilievs and by the gendarmes and the priests and
make it clear to the workers what their intentions
are. We must also expose the conciliatory ‘“harmonic”
 undertones which will make themselves
heard in the speeches delivered by liberal politicians
at the open assemblies of the workers, whether
they proceed from an earnest conviction as to the
desirability for the peaceful cooperation of the
classes, whether they proceed from a desire to get
in well with the masters, or are simply the result
of sheer clumsiness. We must also warn the workers
 against the traps often set by the police, who at
such open meetings and permitted societies ‘seek
their men with fire,” and who through the legal
organizations endeavor to plant their agent-provocateurs
 in the illegal organizations.
But while doing all this, we must not forget that
in the long run the legalization of the working class
movement will be favorable to us, and not to the
Zubatovs. On the contrary, our campaign of
exposure will help to separate the tares from the
wheat. What the tares are, we have already indicated.
 By the wheat we mean attracting the attention
 of increasing numbers of the more backward
sections of the workers to social and political questions
 and to freeing ourselves, the revolutionaries,

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