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in America, several groups of revolutionary syndicalists and anarchists) there exists a certain tendency to undervalue the work of the Communist Party, as such, and even a direct denial of the necessity of any Communist Party at all. This should serve as an additional motive for the Second Congress to answer the above question precisely and definitely.
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1. The Communist Party forms part of the working class; namely, its most advanced, most intelligent and therefore most revolutionary part. The Communist Party is created by selecting the best, most intelligent, most self-sacrificing and most farseeing workers. The Communist Party has no other interests but those of the working class. It differs from the general mass of the workers in that it takes a general view of the whole historical march of the working class, and at all the turns of the road it endeavours to defend the interests, not of separate groups or professions, but those of the working class as a whole. The Communist Party is the organized political lever by means of which the more advanced part of the working class directs the whole mass of workers in the right direction.
2. As long as the governing power is not in the hands of the workers, as long as the proletariat has not consolidated its rule once
