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Section II has made clear the relations of the Communists to the

existing working-class parties, such as the Chartists in England

and the Agrarian Reformers in America.

The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims,

for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working

class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent

and take care of the future of that movement. In France the

Communists ally themselves with the Social-Democrats, against the

conservative and radical bourgeoisie, reserving, however, the

right to take up a critical position in regard to phrases and

illusions traditionally handed down from the great Revolution.

In Switzerland they support the Radicals, without losing sight of

the fact that this party consists of antagonistic elements,

partly of Democratic Socialists, in the French sense, partly of

radical bourgeois.