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 themselves to all the branches of social life, to all the various forms and subdivisions of the worker masses, must systematically train themselves, the Party, the class and the masses by such multiform work.

At the same time it is most important to elaborate practically the necessary development of the methods of the whole work, on the one hand in respect to the "leaders" or responsible representatives, who are very frequently hopelessly infected with petty bourgeois and imperialist prejudices; on the other hand in respect to the masses, who, especially after the imperialist slaughter, are mostly inclined to listen to and accept the doctrine of the necessity of leadership of the proletariat as the only way out of capitalistic enslavement. The masses must be approached with patience and caution, in order to understand the peculiarities, the special psychology of each layer, profession; and so on, of these masses.

10. In particular one of the groups or nuclei; of the Communists deserves the exclusive attention and care of the party, namely, the parliamentary faction, i. e. the group of members of the Party who are members of bourgeois representative institutions (first of all a governmental one, then local, municipal and others). On the one hand, such a tribune has a special importance in the eyes of the wider circles of the backward or prejudiced working masses,