Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.
— Vladimir Lenin Modern

Leader of Russian Revolution

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The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky

Date / Period

1918

Category

Shocking

Source

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/ch01.htm

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