Communist Party, a serious decision *** has become ripe. 6. In the absence of these conditions, the Communists may and should systematically and insistently propagate the idea of Soviets, popularise it among the masses, demonstrate to the widest circles of the population that the Soviets are the only efficient form of Government during the transition to complete Communism. But to proceed to the direct organisation of Soviets in the absence of the above three conditions is impossible. 7. The attempt of the social traitors in Germany to introduce the Soviets into the general bourgeois-democratic constitutional system, is treason to the workers’ cause and deception of the workmen. Real Soviets are possible only as a form of State organisation, replacing bourgeois democracy, *** by the dictatorship of the proletariat. 8. The propaganda of the Right leaders of the Independents (Hilferding, Kautsky, and others), intended to prove the compatibility of the system” with the “Soviet bourgeois Constituent Assembly, is either a complete misunderstanding of the laws of development of a proletarian revolution, or a conscious deceiving of the working class. The Soviets are the dictatorship of the proletariat. The Constituent Assembly is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. To unite and reconcile the dictatorship of the working class with that of the bourgeoisie is impossible. 9. The propaganda of some representatives of the Left Independents in Germany presenting the workers with a ready-made, formal plan of a Soviet system” having no “ relation whatever to the concrete process ***, is a doctrinaire pastime which draws the workers away from their essential tasks in the real struggle for power. 10. The attempts of separate Communist groups in France, Italy, America and England to form Soviets not embracing the larger working masses, and unable, therefore, to enter into *** are only prejudicial to the actual preparation of a Soviet revolution. Such artificial hot-house soon become “Soviets” transformed, at best, into small associations for propaganda of the Soviet idea, and in the worst case such miserable “Soviets” are capable only of compromising the Soviet idea in the eyes of the popular masses.
Communist Party, a serious decision *** has become ripe. 6. In the absence of these conditions, the Communists may and should systematically and insistently propagate the idea of Soviets, popularise it among the masses, demonstrate to the widest circles of the population that the Soviets are the only efficient form of Government during the transition to complete Communism. But to proceed to the direct organisation of Soviets in the absence of the above three conditions is impossible. 7. The attempt of the social traitors in Germany to introduce the Soviets into the general bourgeois-democratic constitutional system, is treason to the workers’ cause and deception of the workmen. Real Soviets are possible only as a form of State organisation, replacing bourgeois democracy, *** by the dictatorship of the proletariat. 8. The propaganda of the Right leaders of the Independents (Hilferding, Kautsky, and others), intended to prove the compatibility of the “Soviet system” with the bourgeois Constituent Assembly, is either a complete misunderstanding of the laws of development of a proletarian revolution, or a conscious deceiving of the working class. The Soviets are the dictatorship of the proletariat. The Constituent Assembly is the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. To unite and reconcile the dictatorship of the working class with that of the bourgeoisie is impossible. 9. The propaganda of some representatives of the Left Independents in Germany presenting the workers with a ready-made, formal plan of a “ Soviet system” having no relation whatever to the concrete process ***, is a doctrinaire pastime which draws the workers away from their essential tasks in the real struggle for power. 10. The attempts of separate Communist groups in France, Italy, America and England to form Soviets not embracing the larger working masses, and unable, therefore, to enter into *** are only prejudicial to the actual preparation of a Soviet revolution. Such artificial hot-house “Soviets” soon become transformed, at best, into small associations for propaganda of the Soviet idea, and in the worst case such miserable “Soviets” are capable only of compromising the Soviet idea in the eyes of the popular masses.
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