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ities and other parties, he endeavors to raise himself to a similar level and to combine in himself a knowledge of working class circles and a freshness of Socialist conviction with the professional training without which the proletariat cannot conduct a determined struggle against the excellently trained ranks of its enemies. It is thus, and only thus, that Bebels and Auers are thrown up out of the working class mass. But what to a large extent takes place automatically in politically free countries must in our country be performed by our organizations systematically. A working class agitator who in any way shows talent and "promise" should not work eleven hours a day in a factory. We should see to it that he lives on the funds of the Party, that he is able in good time to adopt an illegal manner of existence, that he has the opportunity of changing his sphere of activities; otherwise he will not gain experience, he will not broaden his outlook, and will not be able to hold out for at most several years in the struggle against the police. The wider and more profound the elemental movement of the masses is, the more will they throw up not only talented agitators, but also talented organizers, propagandists and practitioners of the best kind (of which there are so few among our intellectuals, the greater part of whom, after our Russian fashion, are rather indolent and stolid). When we have companies of specially trained worker revolutionaries who have passed through a long course of schooling (revolutionaries, of