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 closely united with the most widely spreading workers' organisations and beware of sectarianism as much as of lack of principle.

The work in the Soviets as well as in the revolutionary industrial unions must invariably and systematically be guided by the party of the proletariat, i. e., the Communist Party. The organised advance guard of the working class, the Communist Party, serves in the same degree the interests of the economic, political and industrial struggle of the working class as a whole. The Communist Party must be the soul of all industrial unions and Soviets of Workers' Deputies, and all other forms of workers' organisations.

The formation of the Soviets as the chief historically-created form of proletarian dictatorship, does not diminish in the least the leading rôle of the Communist Party in the proletarian revolution. When the German "Left" Communists (see the address of their party to the "German Proletariat", April 14th, 1920, signed "Communist Labour Party of Germany") declared that "the Communist Party must also adapt itself more and more to the idea of Soviets and acquire a proletarian aspect" ("Wird gefordert, dass auch die Partei sich immer mehr dem Rätegedanken anpasst und proletarischen Charakter annimmt"—Kommunistische Arbeiterzeitung, № 54)—this is only an obscure expression of the idea that the Communist Party must become