the Russian Soviet Government or the
proletariat Government instead to be controlled by themselves. This
appears from their platforms and propaganda.

"The Socialist Party is not a national party, like the Democratic
Party or the Republican Party, whose aim is to conserve and
preserve the nation. The Socialist Party is an anti-national party
whose allegiance is given to the Internationale and not to the
United States, whose Government and institutions it would destroy.

"'Mass action' and the 'general strike' are advocated and urged by
the Socialist Party as a part of the plan to bring about conditions
favorable to revolution, and as instruments of revolution, and not
to remedy industrial evils. The revolutionary purpose and
non-political character of such acts make them treasonable, and,
whether criminal or not in the absence of such purpose, treasonable
with it."

This last point, the attitude of the Socialist Party of America toward
"mass action" and the "general strike," is of the utmost importance as
evidence that the Socialist Party stands for seizure of the Government
of the United States by revolutionary violence; for the reader will
recall abundant proof in this book that it is precisely by means of
"mass action" and the "general strike" that both of the Communist
parties in this country expect to destroy our existing Government, these
"instruments of revolution" being also the very ones recommended by the
Communist manifesto of the Third (Moscow) International, and the ones
employed by the I. W. W. in its industrial battles.

The Moscow Manifesto, as cited from the copy of it in the "New York
Call" of July 24, 1919, gives the Third International's plan of action
for world revolution in a nutshell:

"The revolutionary epoch demands that the proletariat should employ
such fighting methods as will concentrate its entire energy, viz.,
the method of mass action, and lead to its logical consequence--the
direct collision with the capitalist state machine in an open
combat. All other methods, e.g., revolutionary use of bourgeois
parliamentarism will in the revolution have only a subordinate
value."

It is very significant, therefore, that the Socialist Party of America
definitely committed itself to these tactics in the manifesto it adopted
at the Chicago Emergency Convention on September 4, 1919. As given i