“Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly when, in analyzing the experience of the Commune, he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.orgTagged: Communism, Marxism, Russian Politics, Political Theory, Revolutionary
“Once we have overthrown the capitalists, crushed the resistance of these exploiters with the iron hand of the armed workers, and smashed the bureaucratic machinery of the modern state, we shall have a splendidly-equipped mechanism, freed from the ‘parasite’, a mechanism which can very well be set go…”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.orgTagged: Communism, Marxism, Russian Politics, Russia, Political Theory
“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…”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.orgTagged: Communism, Marxism, Russian Politics, Russia, Political Theory