listake "At the present stage of the revolution, the proletarial itself in the field of political slogans from all the "leftist" groupings not by rejecting democracy (as the anarchists and syndicalists do) but by struggling resolutely and openly for it, at the same time mercilessly denouncing the hesitations of the petty bourgeoisie.
Trotsky outlined that this decisive role of democratic demands was posed not just for a bourgeois but for a socialist revolution: 'By democratic slogans, the proletariat is not in any way suggesting that Spain is headed towards a bourgeois revolution. Only barren pedants full of pat, ready-made formulas could pose the question this wav. Spain has left the stage of bourgeois 'If revolutionary crisis transformed into a revolution, it will inevitably CASS bevond bourgeois limits, and in the event of victory the distinguishes petty bourgeois as in South struggie for ene cictatorsnio advancing problems @ll dal allail confiscation tionary constituent assembly) revolution far trinairsm...
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Under conditions of suppression, elimination, or lack of democracy Africa - it is precisely democratic slogans that lead towards, and provide the framework of, the of the proletariat. As Trotsky wrote in his The Revolution in Spain for example:
"To counterpose the slogan of the dictatorship of the proletariat to the and slogans of revolutionary democracy (for a republic, for revolution, for the separation of church and state. the of church properties, national self-determination, a revolube the most sterile and miserable doc"To contrast the bare slogan of the dictatorship of the proletariat to the historically determined tasks that are now impelling the masses towards the
Socialist Action 20 September 1985