there is no doubt that his argument had a strong emotional effect on the miners, who eventually followed his leadership.
Souvarine, on the other hand, is an anarchist. He has no hope that conditions will improve, and he is determined to wait for his opportunity to destroy for the sake of destruction. Souvarine cannot be said to be a revolutionary, because he does not believe that the violence he will do will bring about a better society. His proposed violent actions are actions without hope. He sees the system as thoroughly evil and worthy of nothing but such destruction. Souvarine is asked about the Workers' International efforts of Pluchart, and the anarchist summarizes his attitude toward all such organized attempts to change society and to stop the oppression of the workers: "Another lot of ba
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