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Show i TO "CONQUER AND DESTROY STATE," U. , COMMUNISTS CALL FOR LABOR REVOLT Revolutionary Pamphlet, Found in U. S. Department of Justice Investigations, Gives Message of Communists Com-munists in Chicago to Russian Headquarters. Extracts from "Manifesto and Program Constitution Report to the Communist International" by the Communist Party of America, Chicago, III. Communism does not proposo to 'capture' tho bourgool.se parliamentary tntc, but to conquer and destroy It. As long ns tho bourgcolso stnte prevails, the capitalist class can baffle tho will of tho proletariat. In those countries In which historical development has furnished the opportunity, tho working clnss tins utilized tho regime of political deinoernrx for Its 'organization against Capitalism. The older unionism wns based on tho craft divisions of smnll Industry Tho unions consisted prlmnrlly of skilled workers whoso skill Is Itself a form of property. The unions wore not organs of tho militant clnss struggle. To Jny tho dominant union lam la actually a bulwark of Capitalism, merging In Imperialism and accepting State Capitalism. Tho proletarian revolution comes at tho moment of crisis In CnpltatlMii of a collapse of the old order. Under tho Impulso of tho crisis, the proletnrla acts for the conquest of power, by means of mass action. Mass action concen t rates and mobilizes the forces of tho proletariat, organized and unorganized It acts equally against the bourgeois stato and tho conservative organization1 of tho working clnss. Strikes of protost dovolop Into general political strikes nnd then Into rovolutlonnry muss action for the conquest of the power of the state. Mnss action becomes political In purposo whllo oxtra-parllamentary In form; It Is equally n process of revolution and the revolution Itself In operation The Communist Party Is the conscious expression of tho clnss struggle of the workers against capitalism. Its aim Is to direct this struggle to the con quest of political power, tho overthrow of capitalism and the destruction t tho bourgeois state. The Communist Party prepares Itself for tho revolution In tho measure that It develops a program of tmmodlato action, expressing the mass tittuu gles of the prolctuilat. These struggles must bo Inspired with revolutlouar spirit nnd purposes. The Communist Party Is fundamentally n party of action. It brings n tho workers a consciousness of their oppression, of tho Impossibility of Im proving their conditions under capitalism. Tho Communist Party directs tin workers' struggle against capitalism, developing fuller forms and purposes It this struggle, culminating In tho mass action of tho revolution. The Communist Party shall mako tho great Industrial struggles of tin working clnss Its major cnmpulgns, In order to develop an understanding ot tho striko In relation to tho overthrow of capitalism. (a) Tho Communist Party shall participate In mass strikes, not only n achieve tho Immcdlute purposes of the strike, but to develop tho revolutlonun Implications of the mass striko. (b) Mass ttrlkes are vital factors In tho process out of which develop tho workers' understanding and action for the conquest of power. (c) In mnss strikes undor conditions of concentrated capitalism there I talent tho tendency toward tho general mnss striko, which takes on n politic.) character and manifests tho Impulso toward proletarian dictatorship, In these genornl muss strikes tho Communist Purty shnll emphasize tin necessity of maintaining Industry nnd tho taking over of social functlom-usually functlom-usually discharged by tho capitalists and the Institutions of capitalism Th striko must cease being Isolated and passive; It must bocomo positive, genera nnd aggressive, preparing tho workers for tho complete assumption of Indus trial nnd social control (a) Evory locul and district organization of tho Party shnll ostohlls contact with Industrial units In Its territory, tho shops, mills and mines urn direct Its agitation accordingly. (b) Shop Commltteos shall bo organized wherever possible for tho pur pose of Communist ngltatlon In a particular shop or Industry by tlio wnrkoo employed there. These committees shnll bo united with each other nnd with tho Communist Party, so that tho party shall have actual contact with the workers and moblllzo them for action against capitalism. Tho Communist Party must engago actively In tho struggle to revolution Ize tho trndo unions. As against tho unionism of tho American Federation of Labor, tho Communist Party propagandizes Industrial unionism nnd Industrial union organization, emphasizing their rovolutlonnry Implications. Indus rial Unionism to not simply a means for tho everyday Btruggle against capitalism Its ultlmnto purposo Is revolutionary, implying tho necessity of ending th cnpltalUt parliamentary stato. Industrial Unionism is a factor In the Una' mnss action for tho conquest of power, ns It will constitute tho hnsls for th Industrial administration of tho Communist Commonwealth. (a) Tho Communist Party recognizes thnt tho A. F. of I Is rcnctlouur. nnd a bulwark of capitalism. (b) Councils of workors shall be organized In tho shops as circumstance allow, for the purposo of carrying on tho Industrial union btruggle lu the ol unions, uniting nnd mobilizing tho mllttnnr elements; these councils to In unltled In a Central Council wherover posslblo. (c) It shall be a major task of tho Communist Party to agitato for the construction of n geuoral Industrial union organization, embracing the I. W. V W. I. L. U., Independent and secession unions, militant utdons of the A. F. of L., and tho unorganized workers, on tho basis of. the revolutionary class itrugglo. The Communist Pnrty shall encourage movements of the workers In tin shops seeking to realize workers' control of Industry, whllo Indicating Iheli limitations under capitalism; concretely, nuy movement analogous to the Sho) Stewards of England. These movements (equally directed against the unloi bureaucracy) should be related to tho Communist Party. The unorgnutzod unskilled workers (Including the agricultural prolotnrlnt) constitute tho bulk of the working class. The Communist Party mrU directly and systematically agitato umong thess workers, awakenlug them to Industrial union organization aad acttaa. f |