A vanguard organization becomes a vanguard party when a significant minority of the real class, of the really existing workers, poor peasants, revolutionary youth, revolutionary women, revolutionary oppressed nationalities, recognizes it as their vanguard party, i. e., follows it in action.
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And if the mass of the people do not accept your choice of priorities, no power on earth, even the biggest terror of Stalin, can force them to do the one key thing that you need to build socialism have a constructive, creative, and convinced participation in the production process.
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. A vanguard organization is something which is permanent. A vanguard party has to be constructed, has to be built through a long process.
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