Structure And Organization Of The Communist Party Of The United States

Excerpt from Structure and Organization of the Communist Party of the United States, Vol. 1: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session; November 20, 21 and 22, 1961 (Including Index) Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The organisation of the Party must be adapted to the conditions and to the goal of its activity. The Communist Party must be the vanguard, the general staff of the Proletariat, through all the phases of revolutionary class struggle and during the subsequent transition period towards the realization of Socialism, i.e., the first stage of the Communist society. Most Communist Parties, and consequently the Communist International as the united party of the revolutionary proletariat of the world, have this common feature in their conditions of struggle, that they still have to fight against the dominant bourgeoisie. To conquer the bourgeoisie, and to wrest the power from its hands is, for all of them, until further developments Leadership is a necessary condition for any common action, but most of all, it is indispensable in the greatest fight in the world's history.