“....That way it seemed as though support for the Communists’ position was spread throughout the group. Power is what your opponent thinks you have...”
It has always been the vocal few, and a mass of idiots..
Think; Oct 1917
Yes. Communists always speak about the revolutionary vanguard. By definition a vanguard is a tiny group with a unified vision who assume the role of elitists leading the nation forward. Fundamentally it is not democratic because it dismisses the opinions of most people as being the product of minds whose consciousness has not been “raised”.