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reveals its class character, and open
ly sets itself the task of suppressing
the exploiters in the interests of the
overwhelming majority Of the popula-
ton.
While bourgeois democracy leaves
quite untouched the monopoly of the
capitalist class with respect to the
means of production, and all material
values Of decisive Importance, and
thus reduces the formal rights of the
workers to blatant hypocrisy; the
Soviet State first creates the premises
for these rights by actually securing
the liberty of the working class, by
rendering of the workers organiza,
tons possible, etc.
For the first time in history prole,
tartan democracy removes the in
equality of all exploited citizens re-
CARELESS of sex, race, religion, and
natioHality-it establishes an equality
which has never been realized in any
capitalist state.
Proletarian democracy and its or
gans, which realize the broadcast
democracy amongst the workers, are
in incomparably closer relation with
the masses, and enable them to take
part in the administrative machine.
The right to elect new delegates, the
right to recall them at any time, the
combination of executive and legis-
lative power, the arrangement Of cleo
toral districts not according to terri
torial, but according to economic units
according to factories, undertakings,
etc.)-all this draws a sharp dividing
line between the bourgeois parliamen-
tary republic and the Soviet dictator
ship of the proletariat.
The proletariat, as leader and van
guard Of all other workers, and above
all of the peasant masses. strengthens
its leading role by legal privileges,
which are unavoidable in the first
stages of development. These privi-
leges must gradually die out in pro-
portion to the progress of the educa-
ton received by the rest of the work
ing masses. and later by the other
citizens Of the state, and on the basis
of the new relations.
An essential part Of the seizure Of
power by the working class is the de-
struction of the bourgeois monopoly
Of arms, and the concentration Of
arms in the hands Of the proletariat.
During the course of the struggle the
main object in view must be the dis
armament of the bourgeoisie and the
arming of the proletariat.
The further organization of armed
forces, based on strict revolutionary
discipline. must be carried out on pre-
cisely the same fundamental class
principle; it must correspond with the
structure of the proletarian dictator
ship, and the principles assuring lead
ership to the proletariat.
The victorious proletariat utilities
the power which it has seized, first,
to break the resistance Of the enemy
and to guarantee the further rule of
the working class against the attacks
of the bourgeoisie. Secondly. it uti-
Lies this concentrated power for the
appropriation Of the expropriators,
that is, for the revolutionary transfer
nation of economic, and consequently
Of all other social relations. AS
rule, this appropriation will assume
the form of confscation, that is. by
the appropriation of the means of
production without compensation and
the delivery Of these means into the
hands Of the proletarian state. In this
connection the Communist Interna-
tional proposes the following funda-
mental measures:
1. The appropriation of the large
industrial undertakings, of the means
of transport and traffic telegraph,
telephone), electric works, etc.
2. The proletarian naturalization
of large landed estates. which are to
\ be handed over to the administration
of the organs Of proletarian dictator
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