The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
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"The advanced guard of the proletariat, the Communist Party, is necessary to lead the working class."
"The party is the mind, honor, and conscience of our epoch."
"When we are victorious on a world scale, I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of the world's largest cities. This would be the most 'just' and most ed…"
"The more powerful the resistance, the more ruthless will be our terror."
"We are not utopians, we do not 'dream' of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon a misunderstanding of the tasks of the proletarian dict…"
Russian revolutionary who led the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and founded the Soviet state; What Is to Be Done? (1902) shaped 20th-century revolutionary practice. Closely associated with Leon Trotsky (his Red Army organizer and 1917 partner) and Karl Marx (the source Lenin claimed (and adapted)). For an intellectual contrast, see Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher — Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) systematically attacked Marx-and-Lenin 'historical inevitability' as the philosophical structure that produces totalitarianism — Lenin's vanguard-party doctrine is Popper's primary 20th-century target.
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