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 possibility of success requires that the labouring and the most exploited masses in the country experience an immediate and great improvement of their position caused by the victory of the proletariat and at the expense of the exploiters. Unless this is done, the industrial proletariat cannot depend on the support of the country and cannot secure the provisionment of the towns with foodstuffs.

8. The enormous difficulty of organisation and education for the revolutionary struggle of the agrarian labouring masses placed by capitalism in conditions of particular oppression, dispersion and often a middleaged dependence, require from the Communist Parties a special attention in regard for to the strike movement in the rural districts. It requires an enforced support and a wide development of mass strikes of the agrarian proletarians and half proletarians. The experience of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, confirmed and enlarged now by the experience of Germany and other advanced countries, shows that only the development of mass strike struggle (under certain conditions the small peasants are also to be drawn into these strikes) will shake the inactivity of the country population, arouse a class consciousness and the consciousness of the necessity of class organisation in the exploited masses in the country, and show them the obvious practical use of their joining the town workers.