Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public inst… - Rosa Luxemburg

L'égalité politique s'incarne à partir du moment où l'exploitation économique est radicalement anéantie

Those who do not move, do not feel their chains.

If we assume the viewpoint claimed as his own by Lenin and we fear the influence of intellectuals in the proletarian movement, we can conceive of no greater danger to the Russian party than Lenin's plan of organization. Nothing will more surely enslave a young labor movement to an intellectual elite hungry for power than this bureaucratic straightjacket, which will immobilize the movement and turn it into an automaton manipulated by a Central Committee. On the other hand there is no more effective guarantee against opportunist intrigue and personal ambition than the independent revolutionary action of the proletariat, as a result of which the workers acquire the sense of political responsibility and self-reliance.