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missible only up to the moment that they are decided. After these questions have been decided by the leading organs of the Party conferences or congresses, these decisions must be carried out without any reservation, even if a given member, or a whole organization, does not agree with the decision. Absolute subordination of the minority to the majority,—this is the fundamental principle of the Party discipline of the R. C. P., as carried out in it by Lenin.

To acquaint the reader with Lenin's views on Party discipline and Party unity, we include in this volume extracts from Lenin’s pamphlet: "Infantile Diseases of Left Wing Communism," which contains an excellent description of the qualities of the Bolsheviks which enabled them to capture power and retain it under the most difficult conditions: extracts from Lenin's speeches at the 10th Congress of the R. C. P.,—giving his views on the heated discussions on the Trade Union Movement which arose at that time—and the resolution of the 10th Congress on Party unity.

We have already seen above that Lenin, as Marx did in the Communist Manifesto, defined the Party as the vanguard of the working class. In chapter two of the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, we read the following: "The Communists . . . . in the proletarian movement in various