The State and Revolution

by Vladimir Lenin

‘Freedom in capitalist society always remains roughly the same as it was in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for the slave-owners.’

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

the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!