Democracy

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...the Bolshevik economy can hardly be called "socialist," for to us socialism is indissolubly linked to democracy. According to our concept, socialization of the means of production implies freeing the economy from the rule of one class and vesting it in society as a whole-a society which is democratically self-governed. We never imagined that the political form of that "managed economy" which was to replace capitalist production for a free market could be unrestricted absolutism.

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Marxist support for the principle of national self-determination is as illusory as is capitalist support of individual freedom.

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You know how they used to do these things in other countries. Heads rolled; there was hard labor and all sorts of things. We do not want to do that but, by God, if anyone is persistent in hostile activity then we must put him into isolation somewhere. And you know what isolation means.

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The proletariat need no longer elevate itself step by step according to national laws, nor seek to make its worth felt in proportion as it acquires greater compactness, ability and strength, thus stamping its imprint on the evolution of history by its efforts to instill into the state, the nation and international relations the true spirit of democracy, the democracy of labor. These accomplishments were to be realized with the weapons of intelligence, civilization, unrestrained liberty. But this ideal has been supplainted by a mean ideal of armed and brutal violence, the so-called "dictatorship of the proletariat" which -- at one blow -- excludes from social life all other abilities, all other contributions, all other classes, and even the great majority of the working people. Such a dictatorship in reality would not be, and for a long time could not be, other than the dictatorship of a few men over the proletariat; that is, against this very proletariat. The party and the class would be submerged by a faction.

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April 11, 2020 : Democracy -- Added.

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