“The petty-bourgeois democrats, such as our Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, and also their twin brothers, all the social-chauvinists and opportunists of Western Europe, expect just this ‘more’ from universal suffrage. They themselves share, and instil into the minds of the people, the false notion that universal suffrage ‘in the present-day state' is really capable of revealing the will of the majority of the working people and of securing its realization.”
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