(1) on any occasion that workers left their workshops and factories to demonstrate in the street, anarchists should be there to win them over to the cause of social revolution; (2) May 1 was no more important than any other date, but because “people have a tendency to think about revolution on that day, it would be strange and even pitiful if anarchists advised them to stay at home to rest”; (3) even if May 1 was to be a political demonstration in which socialist leaders sought to make the masses follow them, proletarians had the capacity to go further than their “so-called representatives”
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