A Riddle
V. I. Lenin
What is the difference between an ordinary bourgeois government and a government which is extraordinary, revolutionary, and which does not regard itself as bourgeois?
Answer:
An ordinary bourgeois government can ban demonstrations only on constitutional grounds and after declaring martial law.
An extraordinary and near-socialist government can ban demonstrations without any grounds and on the strength of “facts” known to it alone.
Published: First published in Pravda No. 79, June 24 (11), 1917.
Published according to the Pravda text.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1977, Moscow, Volume 25, page 76.
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