“To forget that universal suffrage, as long as capitalists retain their property, is only one of the weapons of the bourgeois state To forget this and confine ourself to bourgeois parliamentarism is shamefully to betray the proletariat, desert to the side of the class enemy, the bourgeoisie, become a traitor and a renegade. ”
“The bourgeois parliament, however democratic and in however democratic a republic – is nothing but a machine for the suppression of millions of working people by a handful of exploiters–if the property and power of the capitalists is preserved. ”
“The bourgeoisie are compelled to be hypocritical and to describe as “popular government” or democracy in general, or pure democracy, the (bourgeois) democratic republic which is, in practice, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the dictatorship of the exploiters over the working people . . . . But, Marxists, Communists, expose this hypocrisy, and tell the workers and the working people in general the frank and straightforward truth: The democratic republic, the Constituent Assembly, general elections etc. are, in practice, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and for the emancipation of labour from the yoke of capital there is no other way, but to replace this dictatorship with the dictatorship of the proletariat. ”