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students and workers who are leading the economic struggle in order to create a "committee," but that professional revolutionaries must be trained for years from out of its own midst; the crowd will "think" not of amateurishness but of training professional revolutionaries. The centralization of the conspiratorial functions of the organization does not mean the concentration of all the functions of the movement. Because ten professional revolutionaries concentrate in their hands the conspiratorial part of the work, the active participation of the wide masses in the dissemination of illegal literature will not diminish, but on the contrary increase tenfold. Thus, and only thus, can we bring it about that the reading of illegal literature, the contribution to illegal literature, and to some extent even the distribution of illegal literature, shall cease to be conspiratorial work, for the police will soon come to realize the folly and futility of bringing the whole judicial and administrative machine to bear upon every copy of a publication which is being broadcasted in thousands. This applies not only to the press, but to every function of the movement, even to demonstrations. The active and widespread participation of the masses will not suffer, but, on the contrary, will increase from the fact that "ten" experienced revolutionaries, no less professionally trained than the police, will concentrate all the conspiratorial side of the work in their hands—preparing leaflets, working out approximate plans and appointing bodies of leaders