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the development Of our propaganda
activities.
10. The principle aim Of the ele-
mentary evening classes Sunday
schools) must be to impart elementary
political knowledge to our party mem
bers by teaching the first principles
Of Marxist-Leninist theory and me-
thod. The curriculum of these class
es must be based on the program of
the Communist International. These
classes must aim at making party
members fit to take up active party
work and to carry on individual propa-
ganda among the masses inside and
especially outside the party.
20. Between these two poles of the
party school system various other
forms of party education may be or
ganized and adapted to the conditions
prevailing in the respective countries
and parties. These forms Of educa-
ton can range from Sunday schools
and short local study courses to dis
trict party schools, able to cater to
more advanced students and calculat-
ed to turn out local organizers and
officials. Special efforts should be
made to institute continual courses
for propagandists in order to add to
their knowledge and to keep them in
practice.
II. Communist Parties must not
neglect to make their influence felt
in labor colleges, factory council
school, trade union educational insti-
buttons, etc. They must endeavor to
get these institutions under their con-
troll with the object Of using them as
Communist education centers.
%. Neither the funds nor the in
tellectual material of the parties are
sufficient to carry out the ambitious
scheme Of establishing network of
Marxist-Leninist schools wide enough
to cover the overwhelming majority
Of our membership in the near future.
For this reason, and also because the
school system alone cannot give to
students thoro and complete knowl-
edge of Marxism-Leninism we must
rouse the interest Of our members in
self-education which must be organ
lied on a large scale. In this con-
nection special attention should be
paid to the group system of self educa-
tion (workers' study circles). Every
party must endeavor to set up net
work of Marxist-Leninist study circles.
The central agitation propaganda COM
mittee Of the party must appoint a
committee organized of comrades well
trained in propaganda work and hay
ing pedagogical abilities. This COM
mittee must promote self education
in Marxism and Leninism by giving
advice to individual members and self
education groups by correspondence
and thru our various organs of the
press.
%. Organization of propaganda
must not be limited to the higher par
ty organs. but must be also extended
to the larger factory nuclei of the par
ty as well as to the smaller territorial
party organizations. In all these or
CARNATIONS propaganda organizers
must be selected whose business it
must be to develop propaganda activi-
ties and to arouse the interests Of the
workers for party education, in &C
cordance with the Instructions Of the
propaganda organs of the party.
"a. The executive of the Commu-
hist International must see to it that
in the course of the next twelve
months model school and several
model evening classes Sunday
schools) be established at least in
the most important parties for the dis.
semination Of Marxism and Leninism.
II desired by the central committee Of
any party. the executive must estab-
fish direct connection with these mod
ell institutions in order to give them
theological and material support by
providing them with books, appliance
es, etc. The central committees of