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Socialist: Will you please look out of this window?
Reporter: What do you mean?
Socialist: Do you see those clouds?
Reporter: I see they are quite black, and from their general aspect I apprehend we shall soon have a tremendous thunderstorm.
Socialist: Are you sure of it?
Reporter: Indeed, I am. There—did you see the lightning?
Socialist: Then, my dear Sir, you are "aiming" at bringing about a thunderstorm?
Reporter: What do you mean? I have nothing to do with it—it is coming, it is there already!
Socialist: Now then, my young friend: This is the way we are aiming at bringing about the violent revolution. We see it approaching—it is almost there, and we are preparing to meet its consequences.