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 submit to its dictates, would mean to abandon the idea of unity in the guidance of the separate proletarian groups operating on the different arenas of the fight. Lastly, the class struggle of the proletariat demands a concentrated propaganda, throwing light on the various stages of the fight from the same point of view, and directing the attention of the proletariat at each given moment to the definite tasks to be accomplished by the whole class. This cannot be done without the help of a centralised political apparatus, i. e., without a political party. Therefore the doctrine of the revolutionary syndicalists, and the partisans of the Industrial Workers of the World (I. W: W.), against the necessity of an independent Workers' Party, as a matter of fact has only served and continues to serve the interests of the bourgeoisie and the counter-revolutionary „Social Democrats“. In their propaganda against the Communist Party, which the syndicalists and industrialists desire to replace by the labour unions alone, or by shapeless indefinite „general“ workers' unions, they approach the opportunists. After the defeat of the revolution in 1905, during the course of several years the Russian Mensheviks proclaimed the necessity of a so-called Labour Congress, which was to replace the revolutionary party of the working class: all kinds of "Labourists" of England and America, while consciously carrying on a bour-