„Democracy, in fact, is always inventing class distinctions, despite its theoretical abhorrence of them.“

— H.L. Mencken

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„Democracy always seems bent upon killing the thing it theoretically loves. I have rehearsed some of its operations against liberty, the very cornerstone of its political metaphysic.“
— H.L. Mencken
„If democracy has become superfluous or annoying to the bourgeoisie, it is on the contrary necessary and indispensable to the working class. It is necessary to the working class because it creates the political forms (autonomous administration, electoral rights, etc.) which will serve the proletariat as fulcrums in its task of transforming bourgeois society. Democracy is indispensable to the working class because only through the exercise of its democratic rights, in the struggle for democracy, can the proletariat become aware of its class interests and its historic task.“
— Rosa Luxemburg
„The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.“
— Ambrose Bierce
„If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?“
— Vladimir Lenin