03. Do you want a revolution for establishing the dictatorship of the communist party?

No. Only the proletariat has the duty of realizing the revolution and acquiring all power in its own hands; it’s up to the whole working class. “All power to the soviets”, to workers’ assemblies: this is our program and this is true democracy, proletarian democracy.

There will have to be the maximum level of democracy inside the class power organisms (which will express the will of the majority, if not of all workers) and maximum hardness (“dictatorship of the proletariat”) against those who stand outside and against (and in arms, in all probability) workers and their semi-state, i.e. the organization in councils. The semi-state which the proletariat will have to realize will be based on soviets or councils, and it will be destined to extinguish itself when the division in classes of the society will disappear. In fact, it is defined semi-state exactly because, differently from other states which succeeded in various historical epochs, it has not to perpetuate the domination of a class on another, instead it has to lead to the extinction of all classes and of itself with them.

Thus the “dictatorship of the proletariat” will consist in the exercise of strength by the whole working class, to remove the causes of the division in classes of the society. It will be the power of the large exploited majority on the exploiting minority, to deprive it of its privileges. Not the dictatorship of the party.

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