LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
countries put forward and champion the common 
interests of the whole of the proletariat, irrespective 
of national interests . . . . in the various stages 
of development through which the proletarian 
struggle against the bourgeoisie is proceeding; they 
always champion the common interests of the 
movement as a whole. Thus, the Communists 
practically represent the most determined and the 
most progressive section of the Labor Parties of 
all countries, and with regard to theory they have 
this advantage over the rest of the masses of the 
proletariat, that they understand the conditions, the 
progress, and the general results of the Labor 
movement. They have no interests other than 
those which coincide with the interests of the whole 
of the proletariat.” 
This is expressed with exceptional clarity in the 
theses passed by the Second Congress of the Com- 
munist International on the Role of the Communist 
Party in the Proletarian Revolution. In these 
theses we read: 
“The Communist Party is a section of the work- 
ing class; its most progressive, most class conscious, 
and therefore, its most revolutionary section. A 
Communist Party is formed by the selection of the 
most class conscious, most courageous, and most 
far-sighted workers. The Communist Party has 
no interests differing from the interests of the work- 
ing class. A Communist Party differs from the 
rest of the mass of the workers in that it sees the 
whole of the historical path of the working class 
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