From Oxford Essential Quotations:
Lenin (1870–1924), Russian revolutionary
- No, Democracy is not identical with majority rule. Democracy is a State which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of force by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another. State and Revolution (1919)
- While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. State and Revolution (1919) ch. 5
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