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And the Communist Party
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retained some elements of that old Guesdist Party,
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that you remember me discussing before World War One--
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I wasn't discussing it before World War One,
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but we discussed it before we got to World War One--
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in that it was sort of a top-down organization.
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The democratic centralism, decisions made at the top
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and then informing the party faithful of
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what they would be was an essential part of that.
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In 1921, '22 and '23,
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mostly '22, '23,
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if I remember correctly,