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 also at hand. But it follows from the above that the duty, for the moment of the Communist Parties consists not in accelerating the revolution, but in continuing to prepare the proletariat. On the other, hand, the above instance in the history of many Socialist parties draws our attention to the fact, that the "recognition" of .the dictatorship of the proletariat should not remain only verbal.

Therefore the principal duty of the Communist Parties, from the point of view of an international proletarian movement, is at the present moment the uniting of the dispersed Communist forces, the formation in each country of a single Communist party (or the strengthening and renovation of the already existing one) in order to multiply the work of preparing the proletariat for the conquest of the governing power, and especially for the acquisition of the power in the form of a dictatorship of the groups and parties recognising the dictatorship of the proletariat, has not been sufficiently subject to the radical reformation, the radical renovation which are necessary for it to be recognised as Communist work, and corresponding to the tasks of the eve of proletarian dictatorship.

6. The conquest of political power by the proletariat does not put a stop to its class struggle against the bourgeoisie; on the contrary it makes the struggle especially broad, acute and pitiless. All the groups, parties, leaders of the