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 previous organization, they are just as much means towards the development of the latter organization.

"Where the working class is not yet sufficiently advanced in its organization, in order to undertake a decisive campaign against the collective power, i. e., the political power, of the ruling classes, it must under all circumstances be trained for this by incessant agitation against the hostile political attitude of the ruling class towards us. Failing, it remains a plaything in the latter's hands …"

S early as July 25, 1877, Marx wrote to Engels;