provocator

There is no doubt that Kerensky is a provocator, but we do not consider it right for Russian men to be shooting Russian men.

Chapter 7. The Revolutionary Front 1922

Well, you dirty spy, you rotten agent provocator, you can go back and tell whatever skunk is paying you blood-money for betraying your brothers that he’s wasting his coin.

Scene VII. The Hairy Ape 1922

The German has been the provocator and leader of all modern armaments.

An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

The subtle and manifold influence for evil of the Napoleonic episode as a school of violence, as a sower of national hatreds, as the direct provocator of obscurantism and reaction, of political tyranny and injustice, cannot well be exaggerated.

Notes on Life and Letters Joseph Conrad 1890

In refusing the yoke of misery, the workingman revolts in the fullness of his rights; illegality is committed by the capitalist class when it becomes a provocator by trying to violate a right which it has itself consecrated. "

Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling