LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
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 “push- 
ing,” and a hundred times more forcibly than 
hitherto. Because you choose so unfortunate a 
phrase as “pushing on from outside,” which can- 
not 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 polit- 
ical 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 ‘‘uncom- 
radely 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 work- 
ing class, because in the period of doubt and hesita- 
tion, when our movement is only just beginning to 
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