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Party, in its struggle not only against the bourgeoisie, but also against those Socialists who are the transmitters of bourgeois ideas among the proletariat, has enrolled in its ranks the staunchest, most farseeing and most advanced fighters of the working class. Only by having such a closely united organisation of the best part of the working class was it possible for the party to overcome all the difficulties which arose before the proletarian dictatorship in the days following the victory. The organisation of a new proletarian Red Army, the practical abolition of the bourgeois governing apparatus, and the building in its place of the framework of a new proletarian state apparatus, the struggle against the narrow craft tendencies of certain separate groups of workers, the struggle: against local and provincial "patriotism", clearing the way for the creation of a new labour discipline—in all these undertakings the final decisive word was said by the Communist Party, whose members are a living example for the majority of the workers of the way they should go.
11. The necessity of a political party for the proletariat can cease only with a complete suppression of classes. On the way to this final victory of Communism it is possible that the relative importance of the three fundamental proletarian organisations of modern times (party, soviets and industrial unions), shall undergo
