Bureaucracy Quote by Leon Trotsky

The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

— Karl Marx

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

— Friedrich Engels

These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and…

— Howard Zinn

A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.

— Dorothy Day

Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.

— Joseph Stalin

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were…

— Leon Trotsky

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen…

— Che Guevara

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

— Woodrow Wilson

As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation…

— Richard Roberts

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

— Ernest Mandel

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

— Lawrence Durrell

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from…

— Plato