Democracy is a state which recognizes the subordination of the minority to the majority, i.e., an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one section of the population against another.
— Vladimir Lenin Modern

Leader of Russian Revolution

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The State and Revolution

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1917

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/ch05.htm

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