Philosophy

managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.

We could there fore seek to ask one imperative question, in what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole? The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mold the proletarian movement. The Communists are distinguished from the other working class parties by a few factors such as in the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries; they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the