Now if  th this side, the list on this side erm represents the  sort of essential characteristics of a Marxist political party, and if that's a reasonable er summary, and people might want to take issue with it  argue that these aren't the essential characteristics, that there are other essential characteristics or one other important er characteristic which I've ignored, but if these are, down this side, the essential characteristics of a Marxist party then Mao's Communist Party in the late nineteen thirties cannot, it seems to me, by any stretch of the imagination qualify.