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Experience throughout the world shows that the ruling class will defend its power by any means, legal or illegal, peaceful or violent, and so, if any fundamental change is to come about, the mass of exploited people must be prepared to use any means necessary, including revolut- ionary violence, to strip them of their power and wealth. Such a change can only be effected by the working class and its allies if they are organised and disciplined, i.e. led by a working class Party dedicated to revolution. It cannot be done by a small group of plotters or terrorists. It can only come about when the development of capitalism, economically and politically has reached such a stage, such a pitch of crisis that the mass of workers has no option but to move. The Party can expedite the conditions for such move- ment — the success of the move when it comes is entirely dependent on how well the Party has organised and prepared the class. Success in proletarian revolution can only be brought about through integrating the principles of scientific socialism, expressed in the works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung with the concrete conditions in our own country. What do we mean by Socialism? Not the phoney socialism of the Labour Party with its sixty years history of betrayal, and its attempts to organise the working 4
