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Tn all covntries even the freest, "legal" and*peaceful* in the sense that the class atruggle is least acute in them, the tims has fully matured when it is absolutely necessary for every Communist Party sye—- tenatically to coabine legal with {21egal work, Legal with 11legal organ- isation. It is necessary, immediately, for all legal Cocumnist Parties to form illegal organisations for the purpose of systematically carrying on illegal work, and of fully preparing for the mouent when the bourgeoisie resort to persecution. Illegal work is particularly necessary in the ergy, navy, and police. The absolute necessity in principle of combining illegal with legal work is deterained, not only ty the sum total of the specific features of the present period, the period of the eve of the proletarian dictatorship, but also by the necessity ef proving to the bourgeoisie that there is not, nor can there be, a sphere or field of work that cannot be won by the Con- munigts; and above all it is determined ty the fact that everywhere there are broad strata of the proletariat, and still brosder non-proletarian toLl- fag and exploited masses, who still believe in bourgeote-denooratic legality and uhose avakening is a matter of extrene importance for wie ™, 7 x : . : : ” on . . . { ' SSEIZCTED WORKS*® by ¥. I. Lenin Yolums X = The Communist International 4 Soe 1 “. Se er mm ate mee a mee : Taternat ional P Publishers arth Averae, N.le, ReYo ? a1 Fos LT, 1735/2174) , G