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Rh concealing its main and real intention, coalition with the Independents. And the pamphlet goes on:

"The Opposition has selected a different road. It is of the opinion that the question of the supremacy of the Communist Party and of its dictatorship is only a question of tactics. At any rate, the supremacy of the CummunistCommunist [sic] Party is the last form of any party supremacy. On principle, we must strive towards the dictatorship of the proletariat, and all the party measures, its organization, methods of struggle, its strategy and tactics must be planned to fit accordingly. Therefore, every compromise with other parties must be rejected. There must be no turning back to the already outworn historical and political forms of the parliamentary struggle, no policy of manoeuvering and temporizing." "The specifically proletarian methods of the revolutionary struggle must be strongly emphasized. In order to embrace the greatest mass of the proletariat which is to carry on the revolutionary fight under the leadership of the Communist Party, there must be created new forms of organization upon the broadest foundations and within the widest limits. The gathering place for all revolutionary elements is the Workers' Union, formed on the basis of the shop committee. Here all the workers who followed the slogan of "Leave the trade unions" must gather and unite; here the militant proletariat draws itself up in the thickest ranks. The acceptance of the class struggle, the Soviet system and the dictatorship, is sufficient for admittance. All further political training of the struggling masses, and the political orientation of the struggle, is the task of the Communist Party, standing outside the Workers' Union"

"Two Communist Parties are consequently arrayed, one against the other. One party of the leaders, a party which strives to organize the revolutionary struggle and direct it from above, resorting to compromises and parliamentarism in order to create a situation which would enable it to enter a coalition government, in whose hands should rest the dictatorship. The other, a mass party which relies upon the impetus of the revolutionary struggle from below, conscious of and applying but one method in the fight, that method leading clearly to the goal; rejecting all parliamentary and opportunist