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 8. Each Communist member must remember that he is not a „legislator“, who Is bound to seek agreements with the other legislators, but an agitator of the Party, detailed into the enemy's camp In order to carry out the orders of the Party there. The Communist member is answerable not to the dispersed mass of his constituents, but to his own Communist Party—whether lawful or illegal.

9. The Communist members must speak in parliament in such a way as to be understood by every workman, peasant, washerwoman. shepherd; so that the Party might publish his speeches on sheets of paper and spread them in the most remote villages of the country.

10. The rank and file worker Communists must not be shy of speaking in the bourgeois parliaments, and not give way to the so-called experienced parliamentarians, even if such workmen are novices in parliamentary methods. In case of need the workmen members may read their speeches from notes, in order that the speech might be printed afterwards in the papers or on sheets.

11. The Communist members must make use of the parliamentary tribune to denounce not only the bourgeoisie and its hangers-on, but also for the denunciation of the social-patriots, reformists, the half-and-half politicians of the centre and other opponents of Commun-