Since the proletariat must first of all acquire political supremacy, must rise to be the leading class of the nation, must constitute itself the nation, it is so far, itself national, though not in the bourgeois sense of the word.
Ilivyokuwa wafanya kazi lazima kabla ya yote wapate utawala wa kisiasa, lazima wanyanyuke kuwa ndiyo tabaka iongozayo ya taifa, lazima wao wenyewe wawe ndio taifa, mpaka sasa wao wenyewe ni wanataifa, ingawa si kwa mujibu wa maana inayokusudiwa na mabepari.