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We must stop to consider these accusations, which of course "Rabochie Delo" also makes.

It is known to the author that the St. Petersburg economists accused the "Rabochaya Gazetta" of Narodovolism (which is not difficult to understand if we compare it with "Rabochaya Misl"). This by no means surprised us, for shortly after "Iskra" was started a comrade informed me that the Social Democrats of the town of X accused "Iskra" of being a "Narodovol" organ. We were of course flattered by this accusation, for what decent Social Democrat has not been accused of Narodovolism by the economists?

This accusation is based upon a twofold misconception. Firstly, our people are so little acquainted with the history of the revolutionary movement that every idea of a fighting centralized organization declaring decisive warfare upon Czarism is dubbed "Narodovolism." But that fine organization which the revolutionaries of the 'seventies possessed, and which ought always to serve as our model, was not created by the Narodovoltzi at all, but by the Zemlevoltzi (10), who split up into Chernoperedeltzi and the Narodovoltzi. Therefore, to regard every fighting revolutionary organization as specifically connected with Narodovolism is absurd both historically and logically, since no revolutionary movement which really intends to carry on a serious struggle can get along without some such organization. The mistake of the Narodovoltzi was not that they tried to attract all who were discon-