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lang_pt Never has there been so much talk about democracy as there is today, and yet true democracy is not practiced in any country. Democracy is only a screen covering up the dictatorship of capital. Even before the war, the conservative English writer Fullerton called France a “financial monarchy.” Capitalism exploits democracy because this form makes it easier to conceal its iron dictatorship. The government, parliament, and press are merely clerks, servants of financial and industrial groups and trusts.
In his reply to Kautsky, who contrasted the proletarian dictatorship with “pure democracy,” Lenin emphasizes that one cannot speak of “pure democracy” as long as there are clearly defined classes. There is only class democracy.
“Pure democracy is a false phrase used by liberals to fool workers. History knows bourgeois democracy, which replaces feudalism, and proletarian democracy, which replaces bourgeois democracy.”The history of the 19th and 20th centuries, even before the war, showed us what the much-vaunted “pure democracy” under capitalism really is. Marxists have always argued that the more developed and “pure” democracy is, the more open, brutal, and merciless the class struggle becomes, and the more obvious the oppression of capital and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The Dreyfus affair in republican France, the bloody reprisals of the capitalist-armed mercenary army against striking workers in the free and democratic American republic, — these and thousands of other similar facts reveal the truth that the bourgeoisie tries in vain to hide, namely, that even in the most democratic republics, terror and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie reign supreme, manifesting themselves openly whenever the power of capital seems to be losing ground.
The imperialist war of 1914–1918 proved once and for all, even to the backward workers in the freest republics, that genuine bourgeois democracy is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Tens of millions of people were killed to enrich German and English millionaires and billionaires, and a military dictatorship of the bourgeoisie was established in even the most free republics.
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lang_en «Чистая демократия есть лживая фраза либерала, одурачивающая рабочих. История знает буржуазную демократию, которая идет на смену феодализму, и пролетарскую демократию, которая идет на смену буржуазной».
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