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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: Communist Party, the Trade Unions have come to be
practically an extension of the party organization. This, of
course, would be indignantly denied both by Trade
Unionists and Communists. Still, in the preface to the
All-Russian Trades Union Reports for 1919, Glebov, one of
the best-known Trade Union leaders whom I remember in
the spring of last year objecting to the use of bourgeois
specialists in their proper places, admits as much in the
following muddleheaded statement:-
"The base of the proletarian dictatorship is the Communist
Party, which in general directs all the political and economic
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