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372     THE COMMUNIST

proletariat will draw (C. I. Program)..."a strict distinction between the property of the small commodity producer working for himself, who can and must be gradually brought into the groove of Socialist construction, and the property of the capitalist exploiter, the liquidation of which is an essential condition for Socialist construction." In control of banks the proletariat will aid, if need be, the small farmer needing credit to operate, pushing him into collectives as rapidly as possible by this means.
   Without receding from our aims to nationalize all land and socialize all production, but rather bringing them forward in every current struggle, with which these aims must be harmonized, and greatly aided in pushing this forward by the example of the historic advance made in the Soviet Union, the immediate task of the Communist Party is to bring class struggle into agriculture, uniting the agrarian poor against finance capital in actual struggle to reduce rents, cancel debts and such measures as shatter the rule of capitalism.
   The winning of the petty bourgeois farming masses over to the side of the revolutionary proletariat, or neutralizing them, will not be accomplished by mere promises of a future beautiful paradise, but by the decisive role of the Communists in assisting them and leading their struggles for demands expressing their immediate, burning needs. They must, however, be organized and led in actual struggle and not to new illusions in capitalist parliament.
   Committees of action of poor farmers are the basic organizational form of mass revolutionary action. Owing to the wide variation between conditions and the complaints of various sections, the demands of such committees of action will greatly differ. But the general forms of struggle can be seen to be such as tenants' strikes, mass refusal to pay mortgages or interest upon them, taxpayers' strikes and a physical struggle against foreclosure. It is the first duty of our Party to stimulate the organization of poor farmers' committees of action and to make such committees the basis of a broad mass movement such as may be built up by the United Farmers' Educational League should this be reorganized upon a better functioning plan suitable to the tasks. As the really broad masses of poor farmers enter into struggle, their naturally petty bourgeois revolutionism will apear often in lamentable errors, but no alarm need be felt at such so long as the movement is fraternally bound in alliance with and is instructed by the revolutionary proletariat, so long as the force of its attack is thrown against capitalism. In all our work the Communists have much to gain by study of the