festo says:

"The revolutionary era compels the proletariat to make use of the
means of battle which will concentrate its entire energies, namely,
mass action, with its logical resultant, direct conflict with the
governmental machinery in open combat. All other methods, such as
revolutionary use of bourgeoisie parliamentarism, will be of only
secondary significance."

The principles of the American Communist Party set forth in their seized
records and made public by the Department of Justice, are:

"The Communist Party of America is the party of the working class.
The Communists of America propose to end capitalism and organize a
workers' industrial republic. The workers must control industry and
dispose of the products of industry.

"The Communist Party is a party realizing the limitations of all
existing workers' organizations and purposes to develop the
revolutionary movement necessary to free the workers from the
oppression of capitalism. The Communist Party insists that the
problems of the American worker are identical with the problems of
the workers of the world.

"The Communist Party is the conscious expression of the class
struggle of the workers against capitalism. Its aim is to direct
this struggle to the conquest of political power, the overthrow of
capitalism and the destruction of the bourgeois state.

"The Communist Party prepares itself for the revolution in the
measure that it develops a program of immediate action expressing
the mass struggles of the proletariat. These struggles must be
inspired with revolutionary spirit and purposes.

"The Communist Party is fundamentally a party of action. It brings
to the workers a consciousness of their oppression, of the
impossibility of improving their condition under capitalism. The
Communist Party directs the workers' struggle against capitalism,
developing fuller forms and purposes in this struggle, culminating
in the mass action of the revolution.

"The negro problem is a political and economic problem. The racial
oppression of the negro is simply the expression of his economic
bondage and oppression, each intensifying the other. This
complicates the negro problem, but does not alter its proletarian
character. The Communist Party will carry on agitation among the
negro work