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 practice the mottoes: "Deeper into the masses", "In closer contact with the masses". understanding by the word "masses" the entire mass of workers and those exploited by capitalism, especially the less organized and enlightened, the most oppressed and less adaptable to organisation.

The proletariat becomes revolutionary in so far as it is not enclosed within narrow guild limits, in so far as it participates in all the events and branches of public life, as a leader of the whole working and exploited mass; and it is completely impossible for it to realise its dictatorship unless it is ready for and capable of everything for the victory over the bourgeoisie. The experience of Russia in this respect has a theoretical and practical importance; where the proletariat could not have realised its dictatorship, nor acquired the respect and confidence of whole working mass. if it had not borne most of the sacrifices and had not suffered fro m hunger more than all the other groups in this mass, during the most difficult moments of the onslaught, war and blockade on the part of the universal bourgeoisie.

In particular it is necessary for the Communist Party and the whole advanced proletariat to give the most absolute and self-denying support to all the masses of a larger general strike movement, which is alone able under the yoke of capitalism to awaken properly, arouse, enlighten and organize the masses, and develop in them a