Lenin, History's "Hidden Democrat," speaks!

"the dictatorship of the proletariat cannot be exercised through an organisation embracing the whole of the class, because in all capitalist countries... the proletariat is still so divided, so degraded, and so corrupted in parts... that an organisation taking in the whole proletariat cannot direct exercise proletarian dictatorship. It can be exercised only by a vanguard."

"He says that we understand by the words dictatorship of the proletariat what is actually the dictatorship of its determined and conscious minority. And that is the fact."

"Socialism is nothing but state capitalist monopoly made to benefit the whole people."

"When we are reproached with having established a dictatorship of one party... we say, 'Yes, it is a dictatorship of one party! This is what we stand for and we shall not shift from that position.'"

"Our party aims to obtain political power for itself."

"there is not the least contradiction between soviet (i.e., socialist) democracy and the use of dictatorial power by a few persons."

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The State or Revolution
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