WORKERS PARTY LIBRARY, Vol. I
DICTATORSHIP vs. DEMOCRACY
(TERRORISM AND COMMUNISM)
A Reply to Karl Kautsky by
LEON TROTSKY
With a Preface by
H. N. BRAILSFORD
and Foreword by Max Bedact
Published 1922 by
WORKERS PARTY OF AMERICA
799 Broadway, Room 405
New York City
CONTENTS
| Foreword | V |
| Preface | XI |
| Introduction | 5 |
| The Balance of Power | 12 |
| The Dictatorship of the Proletariat | 20 |
| Democracy | 28 |
| Terrorism | 48 |
| The Paris Commune and Soviet Russia | 69 |
| Marx and … Kautsky | 91 |
| The Working Class and its Soviet Policy | 98 |
| Problems of the Organization of Labor | 128 |
| Karl Kautsky, His School and His Book | 177 |
| In Place of an Epilogue | 188 |
Foreword
By Max Bedact
In a land where "democracy" is so deeply entrenched as in our UnitedStates of America it may seem futile to try to make friends for adictatorship, by a close comparison of the principles of thetwo—Dictatorship versus Democracy. But then, confiding in theinviting gesture of the Goddess of Liberty many of our friends andfellow citizens have tested that sacred principle of democracy,freedom of speech, a little too freely—and landed in the penitentiaryfor it. Others again, relying on the not less sacred principle ofdemocracy, freedom of assembly, have come in unpleasant contact with asubstantial stick of hardwood, wielded by an unwieldily guardian ofthe law, and awoke from the immediate effects of this collision insome jail. Again others, leaning a