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44 Words; 305 Characters
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50 Words; 326 Characters
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136 Words; 892 Characters
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65 Words; 407 Characters
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89 Words; 532 Characters
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The present situation in Russia [in 1921, under the Bolshevik Regime] is most anomalous. Economically it is a combination of State and private capitalism. Politically it remains the "dictatorship of the proletariat" or, more correctly, the dictatorship of the inner circle of the Communist Party.
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...the fact that it suits Russian and Chinese imperialism to claim that the interests of their respective governments are parallel with those of the international class struggle, does not make them so, any more than the claims of the American and British governments to represent democracy need be regarded seriously.
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Aside from the narrow matter of tempo of development, it has also been necessary to draw from the Russian experience conclusions about the concept of the "dictatorship of the proletariat." This concept, never fully explored in the literature of revolutionary Marxism, was seen in theory as a brief, transitional passage on the road to greater freedom. The Russian reality has given it instead a dark and fearful content. This experience has taught us that the contradiction between authoritarianism and democratic socialism is complete. The one-party monopoly of political life, developing into a bureaucratic oligarchy, an outcome that clearly rose out of some of the basic premises of Bolshevism, cannot serve socialist ends. No broader democracy can come from a political system based on force and lacking in institutional safeguards against the corruptions of power and violence.
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In essence, they want to make violence into a practical form of government. Their dictatorship naturally and necessarily creates classes and privileges. And, given that the point of the revolution is to destroy those privileges and classes, it would be in vain and it would be necessary to begin again. The dictatorship of the proletariat sterilizes the revolution. It's a waste of time and energy.
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Lenin lived in thrall to the materialist conception of history that Marx evolved from his researches. He could devise no other solution to the social question than to encase it within a series of formulas and pragmatic rules. No thought, no will, no meeting of minds. That would be redolent of the bourgeois and the democrat. No allowance for character or temperament. In society there must be but one temperament, one character, one will, one initiative and one thought. So the brains and hearts of most men are redundant.
Chronology :
April 11, 2020 : Dictatorship -- Added.
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