Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.