‘The Conquest of power by the proletariat does not mean peacefully “capturing” the ready-made bourgeois state by means of parliamentary majority … The conquest of power … is the violent overthrow of bourgeois power, the destruction of the capitalist state apparatus … The Party … is confronted with the task of leading the masses to a direct attack upon the bourgeois state. This is done by … propaganda … and … mass action … This mass action includes … finally, the general strike conjointly with armed insurrection … The latter form … which is the supreme form, must be
