LENIN ON ORGANIZATION 
class. But it must be most closely connected with 
the working class, it must represent and champion 
the interests of the working class as a whole, and 
not those of any individual group or trade. It 
speaks and acts in the name of the whole of the 
working class. It is the vanguard of the working 
class, “the most progressive, the most class con- 
scious, and therefore the most revolutionary section 
of the working class.” For that reason the Com- 
munist Party must never drag at the tail of the 
movement, but must take the lead of it. It must 
lead the whole labor movement. 
To capture power, the Communist Party must 
win over to its side the majority of the working 
class. In order to be able to do this, in order to 
become the real expression of the interests of the 
working class, the Party must take an active part 
in all the conflicts between Labor and Capital, in the 
whole of the struggle of the working class and the 
poor peasantry against their exploiters and oppres- 
sors, and to lead this struggle. It must be most 
closely connected with all the organizations of the 
working class: trade unions, cooperative societies, 
factory committees, parliamentary and municipal 
fractions, working women’s organizations, educa- 
tional organizations, youth leagues, and Soviet 
and State organs if the proletariat is in power. In 
these organs and organizations the Communists 
must form fractions and through these fractions 
lead them. 
In “Infantile Diseases of Leftism” Lenin says: 
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