[February 1919]

1. The main 'argument': was is t’s? *
2. Non-class formulation of the question.
3. History teaches that there has always been a dictatorship.
4. Machine for oppression.
* — what is that?

Mental continuation of the usual line and pace of development.
Misunderstanding (or 'iconic' understanding) that a democratic bourgeois republic is also a machine for the suppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie.
, 'Law': the more democracy, the closer, with every exacerbation of the class struggle between profound antagonists, to pogroms or civil struggle (Russia in the time of
Kerensky; Swiss strikes and demonstrations; America versus * Negroes, versus internationalists; Germa-
ny 1.1919).
Freedom of assembly and the press, as the most important and as a model;
their actual situation.
'Equality' ... of the exploited with the exploiter.
'Freedom' ... for the exploiter.
Development in zigzags concretely :
economic crisis ruin of the masses furious enrichment of the bourgeoisie
brazen imperialist seizure and plunder complete exposure of Wilhelm II and now the Entente
change of morals in 4 years of war savagery, brutalization: all by violence
miracles of technology: for what? and mountains of corpses.
Burden of the crisis: on whose shoulders.
Voting under the omnipotence of the bourgeoisie 'understanding' by all voters or routine?
'ver-und zertreten'! **
Apparatus of bourgeois administration.
SUMMA SUMMARUM *** = dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, {hypocritically covered by national slogans.
Dictatorship of the proletariat —► obligatory suppression of the
resistance of the bourgeoisie...
democracy for the mass of working people...
-►majority of the 'people'...
1. Democratic republic = machine for suppression
2. ver- und zertreten
* — against; in relation to.
** — 'to represent and suppress'!
*** — Summa summarum — general outcome.


3. alienation from the masses
4. bourgeois apparatus
5. 'freedom' of assembly (freedom for exploiters)
6. 'equality' ... press (for exploiters)
6 bis: Democracy and civil war before the war.
7. Expansion = reformism, bourgeois substitution of socialism.
8. Revolution = exacerbated class struggle.
9. War and its consequences.
10. Germany 1.1919.