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 ''is the responsibility of every revolutionary. Those collectives which prove themselves in practice to have the correct understanding contribute to the unified revolutionary party.'' As soon as revolutionaries acquire correct understanding, those who do not possess correct understanding become counter-revolutionaries. The acquisition of correct understanding is not a historical event; it takes place whenever individuals contribute to the unified revolutionary party.

''esterday's dreams are today's revolutionary laws. —The Party has full control over state power. After long investigations and criticism sessions, party members are nominated by their co-workers. The party itself makes the final choice. Party members hold practically all leadership positions. There is one indisputed leader of the Party and the country. The Central Committee makes basic policy decisions according to their understanding of what the people want, and the economic and political necessities of the country. —As a state designed to end the exploitation of man by man and representing for the first time a majority class in society, it differs from all other states, which perpetuated the exploitation of man by man and were based on the rule of a small minority divorced from production and living off the labor of others. —The class making the revolution appears from the very start, if only because it is opposed to a class, not as a class but as the representative of the whole of society. —The notion of the representation of popular interests is an illusion engendered by a false illumination, is an effect of a mirage. —Out of this very contradiction between the interest of the individual and that of the community, the latter takes an independent form as the State, divorced from the real interests of individual and community, and at the same time as an illusory communal life, always based, however, on the real ties existing in every family and tribal conglomeration, and especially on the classes, already determined by the division of labor, which in every such mass of men separate out, and of which one dominates all the others.''

et it might happen that the centralization in the hands of a few leaders is no more than a tactical method—('We are not raising a banner and saying, "Follow us!" We want to join with others to create an instrument that will not be our plaything, or anyone else's plaything, but a useful tool for the people.')—a tactical method adopted to effect the speedier overthrow of the adversary; that the leaders fulfill the purely provisional function of educating the masses