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Oa + Pol Deal ype lente, — Sd ve let cas Ly yo Oo atte ~ dtalarl[tury Guten of « liberalism!}; in the question of the law against “immoral” publications and pictures; in the question of the government influencing the election of professors, etc., etc. Everywhere - the Social-Democrats are found to be ahead of ail others, rousin tical discontent among all classes, rousing the sluggards, pushing on the laggards and providing a wealth of material for the developm i ciousness hat even the avowed enemies of Socialism are filled with respect for this advanced political fighter, and not unfre- quently an important document from bourgeois, and even from bureaucratic and Court citcles, makes its way by some miraculous means into the editorial office of the Vorwarts. This, then, is the explanation of the seeming “contradic- tion” which is so much beyond the understanding of the Rabocheye Dyelo that it raises its arms and cries: '‘Mas- querade!” Indeed, just think of it: We, the Rabocheye Dyelo, ; regard the mass working-class movement as the cornerstone (and say so in bold type!); we warn all and sundry against belittling the significance of the spontaneous movement; we desire to lend the economic struggle itsclf, itself, itself, a political character; we desire to maintain close and organic contact with the proletarian struggle! And yet we are told that we are preparing the ground for converting the working- class movement into an instrument of bourgeois demacracy! And who says this? People who “compromise” with libcral- ism, intervene in every “liberal” issue (what a gross mis- understanding of “organic contace with the proletarian struggle”), who devote so much attention to the students and even (Oh horror!) to the Zomstvo-ites! People who wish to devote 2 greater {compared with the Economists) percent- 120 age of their efforts to ac of the population! Is sot Poor Rabocheye Dyei: this complicated puzzle?