LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
extent enlightened section of the population, the 
passion for political denunciation. We must not 
allow ourselves to be discouraged by the fact that 
the voice of political denunciation is still feeble, rare 
and timid. This is not because of a general sub- 
mission to political despotism, but because those 
who are able and ready to denounce have no tribune 
from which to speak, because there is no audience 
to listen passionately to and approve of what the 
orators say, and because the latter can nowhere 
perceive among the people forces to whom it would 
be worth, while to direct their complaint against the 
“omnipotent” Russian government. But a change 
is now taking place, and a very rapid one. Such 
a force now exists—the revolutionary proletariat. 
It has demonstrated its readiness not merely to 
listen to and to support an appeal for a political 
struggle, but also to fight boldly in that struggle. We 
are now in a position to create a tribune for the 
national denunciation of the Czarist government 
and it is our duty to do so. That tribune must be 
a Social Democratic paper. The Russian working 
class, in contrast to other classes and sections of 
Russian society, betray a permanent desire for 
political knowledge and, not only during periods of 
unusual unrest, but constantly, demand illegal liter- 
ature. Given that demand, given the training of 
experienced revolutionary leaders, which has already 
begun, and given great concentration of the work- 
ing class, which makes it the real master in the 
working class quarters of large towns, in factory 
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