COMINTERN Alan Adler, ed., Theses, Resolutions and Manifestos of the First Four Congresses of the Third International London: Ink Links, "On Tactics," pp. 293-4 "Our Attitude to the Semi-Proletarian Strata" "In Western Europe there is no class other than the proletariat which is capable of playing the significant role in the world revolution that, as a consequence of the war and the land hunger, the peasants did in Russia. But, even so, a section of the Western-European peasantry and a considerable part of the urban petty bourgeoisie and broad layers of the so- called middle class, of office workers etc., are facing deteriorating standards of living and, under the pressure of rising prices, the housing problems and insecurity, are being shaken out of their political apathy and drawn into the struggle between revolution and counter-revolution. . . ." "It is also important to win the sympathy of technicians, white-collar workers, the middle and lower-ranking civil servants and the intelligentsia, who can assist the proletarian dictatorship in the period of transition from capitalism to Communism by helping with the problems of state and economic administration. If such layers identify with the revolution, the enemy will be demoralized and the popular view of the proletariat as an isolated group will be discredited." [MC5 adds: The above was accepted by the COMINTERN including Lenin, Stalin, Zinoviev and Trotsky.]