Mao & Lenin

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that democracy will remain an illusion so long as that democracy exists within a capitalist society since capitalist exploitation, remains, in effect would cause it to remain, in effect a democracy for the minority and a democracy only for the rich.” (9)
Lenin’s vision of a complete democracy would resemble a large scale version of the French Commune. In these French Communes, which are described by Marx the municipal councilors were chosen by universal suffrage and those councilors, were, for the most part, workers who were paid worker’s wages. The police and the standing army, were gotten rid of, the power of the priests was broken, and the judicial functionaries became elective, responsible, and revocable. (10)
Lenin further describes what true democracy would look like, and explains why it could never exist alongside capitalism: “Only in Communist society, when the resistance of capitalists has been completely crushed…when there are no classes, only then, ‘the state…ceases to exist ,’ and ‘it becomes possible to s...