>>>I am not sure if these are “official” goals of the commies. Sure they were read into the congressional record but they never were an official publication of CPUSA. Rather they were from a book about the communist. In other words, they were only the author’s opinion of what CPUSA really wanted; they were not official commie doctrine.<<<
The author was W. Cleon Skousen. He was a senior FBI agent under J. Edgar Hoover. He taught agents and students the history of communism. The book, The Naken Communist, where the manifesto is printed, was a manuscript of his studies. He was encouraged to put this much into a published form, that omits volumes of his work, by Brigham Young University so the knowledge wouldn’t be lost.
As far as the Manifesto that you feel was an opinion, it can be found on Page 17 of The Naked Communist with the history of it’s origins:
Excerpt:
November 1874, the “Federal Just”, later known as the Communist League, invited Marx and Engels to particiate in their second congress as representatives of the Communist organizations in Brussels. Marx and Engels not only attended; but practically took over. The manifesto was written by Marx and Engels as the communist strategy, presented at the meeting and adopted as a declaration of principles as the “Manifesto to the World”. It was announced as the new program of International Communism.
He was also the uncle of the economist Mark Skousen.
I am not doubting the author's qualifications. My only point was that these were not official commie doctrine, especially the homo part. Maybe opinion wasn't the correct word to use. Maybe "interpretation" would be appropriate in this case.