Spartacist League

:This article is about the Spartacist League which existed in post-World War I Germany. See International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist) for the group currently named the Spartacist League.

The Spartacist Manifesto of 1918

One of the most notable parts of the Spartacist Manifesto (published in 1918) is the following:

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:The question today is not democracy or dictatorship. The question that history has put on the agenda reads: bourgeois democracy or socialist democracy. For the dictatorship of the proletariat does not mean bombs, putsches (coups), riots and anarchy, as the agents of capitalist profits deliberately and falsely claim. Rather, it means using all instruments of political power to achieve socialism, to expropriate the capitalist class, through and in accordance with the will of the revolutionary majority of the proletariat.

Related Topics:
Democracy - Coup - Capitalist - Proletariat

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