The International Communist Party
is constituted on the basis of the following principles established at
Leghorn in 1921 at the foundation of the Communist Party of Italy (section
of the Communist International).
1. Under the present social regime of capital, the conflict between the
productive forces and the relations of production develops at an ever increasing
rate, giving rise to antithetical interests and to the class struggle between
the proletariat and the ruling bourgeoisie.
2. Production relations today are protected by the power of the bourgeois
State: whatever the form of representative system and employment of elective
democracy, the bourgeois State remains the organ for the defence of the
interests of the capitalist class.
3. The proletariat can neither smash nor modify the system of capitalist
relations of production which exploits it without violently overthrowing
the bourgeois power.
4. The indispensable organ of the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat
is the class party. The Communist Party, which contains the most advanced
and resolute part of the proletariat, unifies the efforts of the labouring
masses and transforms their struggles for particular group interests and
immediate gains into the general struggle for the revolutionary emancipation
of the proletariat. The party is responsible for propagating the revolutionary
theory amongst the masses, for organising the material means of action,
and for leading the working class through the course of its struggles by
ensuring the historical continuity and the international unity of the movement.
5. After overthrowing the capitalist power, the proletariat must completely
destroy the old State apparatus in order to organise itself as the dominant
class and install its own dictatorship: that is to say, it will deny all
rights to the bourgeois class and individuals within it for as long as
they socially survive, and will found the organs of the new regime on the
producing class alone. The Communist Party, whose programmatic characteristic lies in this fundamental achievement, exclusively and only represents organizes and directs the proletarian dictatorship.
6. Only by means of force will the proletarian State be able to systematically
intervene in the social economy, and adopt those measures with which the
collective management of production and distribution will take the place
of the capitalist system.
7. This transformation of the economy and consequently of the whole of
social life will gradually eliminate the necessity for the political State,
whose machinery will gradually give way to the rational administration
of human activities.