![]() ![]() But it is important to realise how infinitely mendacious is the ordinary bourgeois conception of socialism as something lifeless, rigid, fixed once and for all, whereas in reality only socialism will be the beginning of a rapid, genuine, truly mass forward movement, embracing first the majority and then the whole of the population, in all spheres of public and private life. By what stages, by means of what practical measures humanity will proceed to this supreme aim we do not and cannot know. Despite the lessons learned from the failures that mark those thousands of years, the changes remain cosmetic. Several millennia separates the planet’s first attempts at democratic rule from its second try. And as soon as equality is achieved for all members of society in relation to ownership of the means of production, that is, equality of labour and wages, human will inevitably be confronted with the question of advancing further, from formal equality to actual equality, i.e., to the operation of the rule "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". As he made clear earlier, Lenin does not view revolutions as particularly revolutionary. But democracy means only formal equality. The great significance of the proletariat's struggle for equality and of equality as a slogan will be clear if we correctly interpret it as meaning the abolition of classes. ![]()
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