6. That as the machinery of
government, including the armed forces of the nation, exists only to
conserve the monopoly by the capitalist class of the wealth taken from
the workers, the working class must organize consciously and
politically for the conquest of the powers of government, national and
local, in order that this machinery, including these forces, may be
converted from an instrument of oppression into the agent of
emancipation and the overthrow of privilege, aristocratic and
plutocratic.
Explanation