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 the proletariat, in so far as the struggle grows from a small and private one to a struggle for the overthrow of the capitalistic order.

10. The elementary method of the struggle of the proletariat against the rule of the bourgeoisie, is, first of all, the method of demonstrations en masse. Such mass demonstrations are prepared and carried out by organised masses of the proletariat, under the direction of a united, disciplined centralised Communist Party. Civil war is war. In this war the proletariat must have its efficient political officers, its good political general staff, to command all the operations during all the stages of the fight.

11. The struggle In masses means a whole system of developing demonstrations, growing ever more acute in form and logically leading to an uprising against the capitalist order of government. In this warfare of the masses developing into a civil war, the directing party of the proletariat must, as a general rule, secure all and every lawful positonposition [sic], making them its auxiliaries in the revolutionary work, and subordinating such positions to the plans of the general campaign, that of the struggle en masse.

12. One of such auxiliary supports is the tribune of the bourgeois parliament. Against participation in a political party struggle one should not use the argument that parliament is a bourgeois government institution.