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    "ocrText": "CONT. AL\nhypocritically proclaims, but rather Communism which is something basically differ-\nent from American democracy. It is not only basically different in the end but al-\nso in the means to the end for whereas democracy recommends only legal means Com-\nmunism recommends illegal means as well. V. I. Lenin urged that \"systematic, all\nsided, illegal work\" be conducted \"in spite of laws. He insisted that \"it is\nobligatory to combine legal forms with illegal forms of the struggle. It is nec-\nessary to resort to all sorts of stratagems, maneuvers and illegal methods, to\nevasion and subterfuges, \" concealing the truth without compunction whenever it is\nhelpful to the spread of Communism to do so.\nThe anti-democratic and militant form of organization of the Communist\nParty is very well described by Joseph Stalin who is recognized by all Communists\nthroughout the world as their most outstanding leader. Joseph Stalin writes:\n\"Every army at war must have an experienced General Staff if\nit is to avoid certain defeat. All the more reason therefore\nwhy the proletariat must have such a General Staff if it is\nto prevent itself from being routed by its mortal enemies. But\nwhere is this General Staff? Only the revolutionary party of\nthe proletariat can serve as this General Staff. A working\nclass without a revolutionary party is like an army without a\nGeneral Staff. The Party is the Military Staff of the prole-\ntariat.\"\nThe same anti-democratic and militant form of organization of the Com-\nmunist Party, USA, is described in the following fashion by the present head of\nthat Party:\n\"Our Party, different from the Socialist Party, creates no il-\nlusions amongst the workers that they can vote their way to\nemancipation, that they can capture the ready-made machinery\nof the state and utilize it for the emancipation of the work-\ning class\nThe working class must shatter the capitalist\nstate. It must build a new state, a new government, a workers'\nand farmers' government, the Soviet Government of the United\nStates\nNo Communist, no matter how many votes he should se-\ncure in a national election, could, even if he would, become\npresident of the present government. When a Communist heads a\ngovernment in the United States -- and that day will come just\nas surely as the sun rises -- that government will not be a cap-\nitalistic government but a Soviet government, and behind this\ngovernment will stand the Red Army to enforce the Dictatorship\nof the Proletariat\nOur Party is a revolutionary Party. It\naims not simply to ease conditions a bit under capitalism for\nthe workers but to abolish capitalism altogether\nEspecially\nmust we undertake to mobilize the masses of workers in de-\nfense of the Soviet Union, In the last few years, in all\nthe important countries, revolutionary Communist parties! have\nbeen built up. They have sunk their roots deep among the masses.\nUnder the leadership of the Communist International they are\nNSC 17\n- 10 -"
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