Anarchism and Sovietism

       

"The idea of "soviets" is a well defined       expression of what we take to be social revolution, being an element       belonging entirely to the constructive side of socialism. The origin of       the notion of dictatorship is wholly bourgeois and as such, has nothing to       do with socialism. It is possible to harness the two terms together       artificially, if it is so desired, but all one would get would be a very       poor caricature of the original idea of soviets, amounting, as such, to a       subversion of the basic notion of socialism."