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 the struggle against the exploiters. The dictatorship of the proletariat will demand the appointment of such inexperienced workmen to the most responsible State functions, otherwise the rule of the Labour government will be powerless and it will not have the support of the masses.

9. The dictatorship of the proletariat is the most complete realisation of a leadership over all workers and exploited, who have been oppressed, beaten down, crushed, frightened, dispersed, deceived by the class of capitalists, on the part pf the only class prepared for such a leading rôle by the whole history of capitalism. Therefore the preparation of the dictatorship of the proletariat must be begun immediately and in all places by means of the following method, among others:

In every organization, union, association—beginning with the proletarian ones at first. and afterwards in all those of the non-proletarian workers and exploited masses (political, professional, military, cooperative, educational, sporting, etc.) must be formed groups or nucleii of Communists—mostly open ones, but also secret ones which become obligatory in each case when their closure may be expected, or the arrest or exile of their members on the part of the bourgeoisie; and these nucleii, in close contact with one another and with the central Party, exchanging experiences, carrying on the work of propaganda, campaign, organization, adapting