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struggle is of a particular keenness, where the resistance of the landowners and the bourgeoisie (landed peasants, exploiters) is particularly violent, where the difference between the conciliatory Socialists and the revolutionary Communists shows with the greatest clearness.
9. The Communist parties must make all efforts possible to start as soon as possible setting up councils in the country, and these councils must be chiefly composed of hired labourers and half-proletarians. Only in connection with the mass strike struggle and by means of the most oppressed class will the councils be able to serve fully their ends and become sufficiently firm to dominate (and further on to include into their midst) the small peasants. But if the strike struggle is not yet developed, and the ability to organise the agrarian proletariat is weak because of the hard oppression by the land owners and the landed peasants, and also because of the want of support from the industrial workers and their unions, the organisation of the soviets in the rural districts will require a long preparation by means of creating small Communist cells, of enforced propaganda expounding in a most popular form the demands of the Communists and illustrating the reasons of these demands by specially convincing cases of exploitation and pressure, by systematic excursions of industrial workers into the country. etc.
