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 without which a large paper cannot pay its way, are at the "free" disposal of capitalists. On the whole, by means of deceit, the pressure of capital and the bourgeois government, the bourgeoisie deprives the revolutionary proletariat of its press.

For the struggle against this state of things the Communist parties must create a new type of periodical press for extensive circulation among the workmen: (1) Lawful publications, in which the Communists, without calling themselves such and without mentioning their connection with the party, would learn to utilise the slightest possibility allowed by the laws, as the Bolsheviki did at the time of the Tsar, after 1905. (2) Illegal sheets, although of the smallest dimensions and irregularly published, but reproduced in most of the printing offices by the workmen (in secret, or if the movement has grown stronger, by means of a revolutionary seizure of the printing offices) and giving the proletariat undiluted revolutionary information and the revolutionary mottoes.

Without Communist press the preparation for the dictatorship of the proletariat is impossible.

14. The degree of preparedness of the proletariat to carry out its dictatorship, in the countries most important from the View-point of world