I am deeply convinced that any other revolution is dishonest, harmful, and spells death to liberty and the people. It can only be conquered by a spontaneous people's revolution. It is impossible to arouse the people artificially. I maintain that a popular social revolution is inevitable everywhere within Europe.
Nobody can foretell.
Perhaps it will blaze up in a year's time, or even earlier, or perhaps in ten or twenty years. This does not matter, and the people who intend to serve it honestly do not serve for their own pleasure. If one considers the people as a revolutionary army, here is our General Staff, here is the precious material for a secret organization. It follows that there is ittle original virtue in them. One must use their poverty-stricken condition which makes them virtuous in spite of themselves and, by constant propaganda and the power of organization, arouse this virtue, educate it, confirm it in them and make it passionately conscious.