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it consists of perfectly conscious and loyal Communists, enlightened by the experience gained in the stubborn revolutionary struggle—only if this Party is able to become bound indissolubly with the entire life of its class, and through the latter with the whole mass of the exploited, and to inspire full confidence in this class and this mass, only such a Party is capable of leading the proletariat in the most pitiless decisive last struggle against all the forces of capitalism. On the other hand, only under the leadership of such a Party will the proletariat be able to deploy all the force of its revolutionary onslaught, nullifying the inevitable apathy and partial resistance of the insignificant minority of the demoralised labour aristocracy, the old Trade Union and guild leaders, etc. Only then will the proletariat be able to deploy its power, which is immeasurably greater than its share in the population, by reason of the economic organisation of capitalist society itself. Lastly, only when practically freed from the yoke of the bourgeoisie and the bourgeois governing apparatus, only after acquiring the possibility of freely (from all capitalist exploitation) organising into its own Soviets, will the mass—i. e. the total of all the workers and exploited—deploy for the first time in history an the initiative and energy of tens of millions of people, formerly crush ed by capitalism. Only when the Soviets will become the only State apparatus,
