-human; it is hostile to us; we cannot be reconciled to its
morality; its double-faced and lying cynicism. Its cruel relation to
individuals is repugnant to us. We want to fight, and will fight,
every form of the physical and moral enslavement of man by such a
society; we will fight every measure calculated to disintegrate society
for the gratification of the interests of gain. We are workers--men by
whose labor everything is created, from gigantic machines to childish
toys. We are people devoid of the right to fight for our human
dignity. Everyone strives to utilize us, and may utilize us, as tools
for the attainment of his ends. Now we want to have as much freedom as
will give us the possibility in time to come to conquer all the power.
Our slogan is simple: 'All the power for the people; all the means of
production for the people; work obligatory on all. Down with private
property!' You see, we are not rebels."

Pavel smiled, and the kindly fire of his blue eyes blazed forth more
brilliantly.

"Please, more to the point!" said the presiding judge distinctly and
aloud. He turned his chest to Pavel, and regarded him. It seemed to
the mother that his dim left eye began to burn with a sinister, greedy
fire. The look all the judges cast on her son made her uneasy for him.
She fancied that their eyes clung to his face, stuck to his body,
thirsted for his blood, by which they might reanimate their own
worn-out bodies. And he, erect and tall, standing firmly and
vigorously, stretched out his hand to them while he spoke distinctly:

"We are revolutionists, and will be such as long as private property
exists, as long as some merely command, and as long as others merely
work. We take stand against the society whose interests you are bidden
to protect as your irreconcilable enemies, and reconciliation between
us is impossible until we shall have been victorious. We will
conquer--we workingmen! Your society is not at all so powerful as it
thinks itself. That very property, for the production and preservation
of which it sacrifices millions of people enslaved by it--that very
force which gives it the power over us--stirs up discord within its own
ranks, destroys them physically and morally. Property requires
extremely great efforts for its protection; and in reality all of you,
our rulers, are greater slaves than we--you are enslaved spiritually,
we only physically. YOU cannot withdraw from under the weight of y