Nikolai Bukharin: Class

Nikolai Bukharin was Soviet politician. Explore interesting quotes on class.

Nikolai Bukharin: 36 quotes 0 likes

“The Red Army has been created by the workers for the struggle with the White Army of capital. The Red Army issued out the civil war; it will disappear when a complete victory has been gained in the war, when class has been abolished when the dictatorship of the proletariat has lapsed.”

Nikolai Bukharin

Source: ABC's of Communism, Ch.8, pp. 268

War , Victory

“In the sanguinary struggle with capitalism, the working class cannot refrain from inflicting the last extremity of punishment upon its declared enemies. While the civil war continues, the abolition of the death penalty is impossible.”

Nikolai Bukharin

74
ABC's of Communism

Penalty , War , Death

“In the old law-courts, the class minority of exploiters passed judgement upon the working majority. The law-courts of the proletarian dictatorship are places where the working majority passes judgement upon the exploiting minority.”

Nikolai Bukharin

71. The Election of the Judiciary by The Workers
ABC's of Communism

Law

“The political commissars are the representatives of the class will of the proletariat in the army; they are mandated by the party and the military centres.”

Nikolai Bukharin

66.
ABC's of Communism

“The proletarian army must be exclusively composed of persons belonging to the working class, of persons who do not expoloit labour and who are directly interested in the victory of the workers' revolution.”

Nikolai Bukharin

62. The Need For The Red Army; It's Class Composition
ABC's of Communism

Personality , Victory