Only in Communist society, when
the resistance of the capitalists has completely broken, when the
capitalist have disappeared, when
there are no classes (i.e., there is no difference between the
members of society in their relation
to the social means of production), only then "the state ceases
to exist", and "it becomes possible
to speak of freedom." Only then a really full democracy, a
democracy without any exceptions,
will be possible and will be realized. And only then will
democracy itself begin to wither
away due to the simple fact that, freed from capitalist slavery, from
the untold horrors, savagery, absurdities
and infamies of capitalist exploitation, people will
gradually become accustomed to
the observance of the elementary rules of social life that have been
known for centuries and repeated
for thousands of years in all school books; they will become
accustomed to observing them without
force, without compulsion, without subordination, without
the special apparatus for compulsion
which is called the state.
V.I. Lenin
source: State and Revolution
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