"The Way to Victory," the manifesto 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,