and as "determining everything." His most significant sentences were the following:
We must openly recognize the predominance of the Communist Party in our policy.
The party may express the interests of its class more or less, may pass through alterations of one kind or another, but we do not yet know of a better form: no other form has as yet been found in any country. The entire juristic and practical constitution of the Soviet Republic is built upon the fact that it is the party that is improving and determining everything, reconstructing everything according to a single principle, in order that the Communist elements in close contact with the proletariat may permeate it with their spirit and liberate it from the heritage of capitalism, which we are so ardently striving to overcome.
Every propagandist belongs to the party, which is guiding and directing the entire state, the world struggle of Soviet Russia against capitalism. This propagandist is a representative of the fighting class and party that controls and necessarily must control this mighty state apparatus.
What now is this Communist Party which claims to represent the proletariat by divine right, not only in Russia but throughout the whole world—and by representing the world proletariat, proposes to take possession of the earth and all it contains?
Here are the official Soviet statistics of the Party membership of some 604,000 (we omit a few unimportant figures):
| Government or town officials | 318,000— | 53 Per Cent. |
| Officers and Soldiers | 162,000— | 27 Per„ Cent.„ |
| Party Employees | 36,000— | 6 Per„ Cent.„ |
| Workingmen | 70,000— | 11 Per„ Cent.„ |
