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Rakosi is just as frank about the police-state goal at the end of Communism's road: "After the [World War II] liberation, we didn't clarify this problem before wide masses of the party but only in limited audiences. Any discussion of the dictatorship of the proletariat as our final aim would have caused great alarm among our coalition partners and hindered our efforts to win over a majority of the petty bourgeoisie-even of the working masses." In one field, Rakosi ignored salami tactics, insisting on the whole sausage right at the start: control...
...that they could depend upon the votes of those who are moved by "envy, malice and all uncharitableness." The Marxian concept of graduated income and inheritance taxes was made to order for them . . . The Communist Manifesto advocated ten measures which should be adopted in order to bring about a dictatorship of the proletariat. Two of these measures were: "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax," and "Abolition of all right of inheritance." Well, our politicians, more concerned with votes than with the welfare of their country, have saddled us with the former, and have gone a long way toward...
...While he wants to win, Krajewski really favors a "two-President system." "If you had a Democrat and a Republican in the White House at the same time," he argues, "they'd be so busy watching each other that there would be no danger of a dictatorship...
...fleetingly in the Kremlin last week to Sign Here at the bottom of the 1952 budget. For the first year since the war, Stalin was not present, but the other eleven Politburocrats dressed up the occasion by sitting up front, enduring dutifully one of the lesser hardships of dictatorship : boring, predictable speeches...
Bogotá's Liberals were incensed; in their partisan zeal, they jumped on the Liberator himself. Wrote German Arciniegas, historian and essayist, in El Tiempo: "Bolívar never believed in democracy, and . . . his contempt for the law and confidence in dictatorship overflowed . . . His formula was dictatorship backed by the army and the archbishops...