Name: The State and Revolution
Author: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Quotes about “dictatorship of the proletariat”

Wilhelm Liebknecht, No Compromise, No Political Trading (1900)

“ The political power which the social democracy aims at and which it will win, no matter what its enemies may do, has not for its object the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat, but the suppression of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Just as the class struggle which the proletariat carries on is only a counter struggle in self-defense to resist the class struggle of the bourgeoisie against the proletariat ”

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Lev Borisovich Kamenev, The Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1920)

“ The proletariat not only seizes power; in grasping it, the proletariat gives to it such a character, such a degree of concentration, energy, determination, absoluteness, infinitude, as according to the words of the programme, 'will allow it to crush all resistance on the part of the exploiters.' That is the fundamental feature of the dictatorship of the proletariat. ”

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William Montgomery Brown, Communism and Christianism

“ It is contended with much show of reason that the dictatorship of the proletariat will not lead to the goal, because human nature being what it is the slaves will automatically develop into another class of masters. ”

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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, The State and Revolution

“ Now, however, when there is a ferment among the proletariat and a movement aimed at the destruction of this machine of oppression and at the conquest of a dictatorship for the proletariat, these traitors to Socialism place the matter in such a light as to make it seem that the bourgeoisie has actually made a gift of "pure democracy" to the workers, that the bourgeoisie are disposed to forego all resistance and to yield to ‘a majority of the workers, that a democratic republic is not a political instrument for the oppression of labor by capital. ”