Social Democracy, said Lenin, is a politically preposterous term; "under Socialism," he wrote, "all democracy withers away."
For the dynamic of Democracy is toward more & more safeguarding of the rights of individual men. The dynamic of Socialism leads inevitably toward arrogation of more & more power by the State, which must in the end assert its power by force against the mass of men who prefer to remain free. When he emphasized this simple fact (TIME, July 18, 1945), Conservative Leader Winston Churchill was simply a better Leninist than Socialist Leader...
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