fullscreen: Lenin on organization

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 ‘“har- 
monic” 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 work- 
ers 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-pro- 
vocateurs 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 indi- 
cated. By the wheat we mean attracting the atten- 
tion of increasing numbers of the more backward 
sections of the workers to social and political ques- 
tions and to freeing ourselves, the revolutionaries, 
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