“There are not and cannot be under capitalism real “freedoms” for the exploited, if only because the premises, printing presses, paper warehouses, etc., necessary for the utilization of “freedoms” are the privilege of the exploiters.
There is not and cannot be under capitalism a real participation of the exploited masses in the government of the country, if only because under the most democratic orders under capitalism, governments are not put in place by the people, but by the Rothschilds and the Stinnes, the Rockefellers and the Morgans.
Democracy under capitalism is capitalist democracy, the democracy of the exploiting minority, resting on the restriction of the rights of the exploited majority and directed against this majority.”
- Joseph Stalin
“Real freedom exists only where exploitation has been destroyed, where there is no oppression of some people by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where man does not tremble for the fact that tomorrow he may lose his job, his home, his bread.”
- Joseph Stalin