conducted according to the rules of war …’ One sees, from these quotations, that this part of the programme is quite unambiguous; but this does not prevent the party from making a systematic use of the ambiguity of violence, withdrawing, if the tactical situation27 demands it, towards a non-violent interpretation of the term ‘social revolution’; and this in spite of the concluding paragraph of the Manifesto28 (which is retained by the programme of 1928): ‘The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their aims can be attained only by the forcible overthrow
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