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The tacit assumption underlying the Lenin-Trotsky theory of dictatorship is this: that the socialist transformation is something for which a readymade formula lies completed in the pocket of the revolutionary party, which needs only to be carried out energetically in practice. This is, unfortunately or – perhaps fortunately – not the case.
Rosa Luxembourg, "The Problem of Dictatorship,” in Russian Revolution (1918), [2]; (accessed October 1, 2007). | ||
