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20 VIOLENCE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
telligent agents." (Sec. 16.) "The second category
must be composed o£ people to whom we concede life
provisionally, in order that by a series of monstrous acts
they may drive the people into inevitable revolt." (Sec.
17.) "To the third category belong a great number of
animals in high position or of individuals who are remarkable
neither for their mind nor for their energy,
but who, by their position, have wealth, connections, influence,
power. We must exploit them in every possible
manner, overreach them, deceive them, and, getting hold
of their dirty secrets, make them our slaves." (Sec. 18.)
. . . "The fourth class is composed of sundry ambitious
persons in
the service of the State and of liberals
of various shades of opinion. With them we can conspire
after their own program, pretending to follow them
blindly. We must take them in our hands, seise their
secrets, compromise them completely, in such a way that
retreat becomes impossible for them, so as to make use
of them in bringing about disturbances in the State."
(Sec. 19.) "The fifth category is composed of doctrinaires,
conspirators, revolutionists, and of those who
^babble at meetings and on paper. We must urge these
on and draw them incessantly into practical and perilous
manifestations, which will result in making the majority
of them disappear, while making some of them genuine
revolutionists." (Sec. 20.) "The sixth category is very
important. They are the women, who must be divided
into three classes : the first, frivolous women, without
mind or heart, which we must use in the same manner as
the third and fourth categories of men; the second, the
ardent, devoted, and capable women, but who are not
ours because they have not reached a practical revolutionary
understanding, without phrase — we must make
use of these like the men of the fifth category; finally,