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    Comrades have brought several Menshevik, Socialist-Revolutionary and other publications from the South that give us a glimpse of the "ideological life" on the other side of the barricades, in the other camp. The Kharkov Mysl of Bazarov and Martov, Gryadushchy Dyen run by Myakotin and Peshekhonov, Bunakov and Vishnyak, Potresov and Grossman, Yuzhnoye Dyelo and Obyedineniye run by Balabanov, S. Ivanovich, Myakotin and Peshekhonov -- these are the names of the publications and of some of their best-known contributors.

    Even the few haphazard issues of the above-mentioned periodicals produce such a strong and full aroma that one immediately feels that one is in the servants' quarters. Educated intellectuals who imagine they are socialists and call themselves such, saturated through and through with bourgeois prejudices and fawning before the bourgeoisie -- such, if we get down to brass tacks, is that entire clique of writers. There are many trends among them but they have no serious meaning from the political point of view for they differ only in the extent to which they are hypocritical or sincere, crude or astute, clumsy or skilled in doing their servants' duties to the bourgeoisie.

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NOTES



  ^[89] Judas Golovlyov -- nickname of Porfiry Golovlyov, a serf-owner, hypocrite and blood-sucker in The Golovlyov Family, a novel by M. Y. Saltykov-Shchedrin    [p. 543]