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extension of your bourgeois democracy, in order to prepare the masses for revolution, for your overthrow. And if you, exploiters should attempt to offer resistance to our proletarian revolution, we shall ruthlessly suppress you; we shall deprive you of your rights, and, even more we shall not give you any bread, because in our proletarian republic the exploiters will lose their rights, will be deprived of fire and water, as we are Socialists in real earnest, and not in a Scheidemann or Kautskian fashion.

This is how we spoke and shall speak—"we," revolutionary Marxists—and this is why the oppressed masses will be for us and with us, while the Scheidemanns and the Kautskys will be swept into a renegades' dust-hole.

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