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"Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions."
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"The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class."
"There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time."
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"Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class."
"On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class."
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