Spencer Beswick on Nostr: Lenin: "Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich—that is the ...
Lenin: "Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich—that is the democracy of capitalist society. . . 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!"
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