At the same time, the RCP must explain to the toiling masses, in order to avoid an incorrect generalization of transitory historical needs, that the deprivation of voting rights affecting a section of citizens in no way concerns, as it did in the majority of bourgeois-democratic republics, a determinate category of citizens permanently declared to be without rights, but pertains only to the exploiters—only to those who, contrary to the fundamental laws of the socialist Soviet republic, stubbornly persist in defending their exploitative position, in preserving capitalist relations. Consequently, in the Soviet republic, on the one hand, with each day of the strengthening of socialism and the reduction in the number of those who have an objective possibility of remaining exploiters or of preserving capitalist relations, the percentage of those deprived of voting rights diminishes of itself. It is scarcely the case now in Russia that this percentage is greater than two or three percent. On the other hand, in the very near future, the cessation of external invasion and the completion of the expropriation of the expropriators may, under certain conditions, create a situation in which the proletarian state power will elect other methods of suppressing the resistance of exploiters and will introduce universal suffrage{27} without any restrictions whatsoever.