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Workers' Republic and Constituent Cortes
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 13 February 1931 |
In regards to the "workers' republic," one is by no means compelled to give up this slogan. But at present, the slogan has more a propagandistic than an agitational character. We must explain to the advanced workers that we are marching towards the workers' republic but that to begin with the peasants have to be brought around to this concept. But it will hardly be possible to bring the peasants to support a workers' republic, which means in fact the dictatorship of the proletariat, except through intermediary experiences, including those of a parliamentary character. The peasantry will accept the dictatorship of the proletariat only after exhausting all other possibilities. It is true that in Spain all the possibilities have already been tried. But there nevertheless still remains the chance for "complete," "consistent" democracy achieved by revolutionary means. That is what the constituent Cortes is. Of course, we make no fetish of this slogan. Should developments move faster, we will know at the right time to substitute another slogan.