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° Prtarastiooal “Poblishers Tn all countries even the freest, “legal” and*peaceful® in the sense that the class struggle is least acute in them, the tine has fully matured when it is absolutely necessary for every Communist Party sye- tenstically to coshine legal with illegal work, legal with illegal orgep- isation. It is necessary, imediately, for all legal Communist Parties to form illegal organisations for the purpose of systematically carrying on fllegad work, and of fully preparing for the mouent when the bourgecisle resorts to persecution. Illegal work te particularly necessary in the aray, navy, and police. The absolute necessity in principle of combining illegal with legal work is deterained, not only by the sum total of the specific features of the present period, the period of the eve of the proletarian dictatorship, but also ty 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- munists; and above all it is determined by the fact that everywhere there are broad strate of the proletariat, and still broader non-proletarian toil- ing and exploited masses, who still belteve in bourgeols-dencoratic legality and whose awakening is a matter of extrene iaportance for use sSELRCTED WORKS" by ¥. I. Lenin Volume XI = The Commmist International arth Avera®, NeYo, HeXo -, ~ Fr ae 7: hy