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It is a grave danger to seek rights through non-democratic

methods

In democratic societies, legal demonstrations and protests are
among fundamental civilian rights. The freedom of criticism and expres-
sion is an essential value that strengthens and enriches the culture of
democracy. Any issue that calls for change is, again, handled through
democratic methods and the choices of people are respected. All the
methods that go beyond democracy and cause instigation and terror
among people pose a serious threat for everyone.
The armed revolutionary uprisings that aim to harm, repress and
ultimately overthrow the legally-elected government are among the
most classic communist tactics that were personally formulated by
Lenin himself.
Favourable conditions for an i insurrection are created by the disorganisa-
tion of the government, by our agitation, and by our organization. 142
We must propagate among the broadest sections of the proletariat the idea
that the armed proletariat, led by the Social-Democratic [revolutionary]
Party, must bring to bear constant pressure on the provisional government
for the purpose of defending, consolidating, and extending the gains of the
revolution... to organize armed resistance to the actions…, in general, of all
reactionary elements led by the government. 143
We must in any case exercise pressure on the provisional revolutionary
government from below. To be able to exercise this pressure from below,
the proletariat must be armed—for in a revolutionary situation matters de-
velop with exceptional rapidity to the stage of open civil war—and must
be led by the Social-Democratic Party. 144
The communist literature clearly defines how the current govern-
ment will be overthrown through armed revolution among "democracy,
freedom of thought, human rights" chants, and what form the next gov-
ernment will take. In fact, Lenin declared in advance that the post-revo-
lution regime would be none other than a communist dictatorship based
on the armed militia force.
… whoever expects that socialism will be achieved without a social revolu-
tion and the dictatorship of the proletariat is not a socialist. Dictatorship is
state power based directly on violence. And in the twentieth century — as