In none of the most democratic bourgeois states have the working masses ever been able to enjoy the electoral rights formally granted them by the bourgeoisie (who actually hinder their enjoyment) anywhere near as extensively, frequently, universally, easily and simply as they are enjoyed under Soviet power. Soviet power has, at the same time, swept away those negative aspects of bourgeois democraythat the Paris Commune began to abolish, i.e., parliamentarism, or the separation of legislative and executive powers, the narrow, limited nature of which Marxism has long, since indicated.
Ma nello stesso tempo l'organizzazione sovietica ha spazzato via i lati negativi della democrazia borghese, che già la Comune di Parigi aveva incominciato ad abolire, e di cui il marxismo aveva da tempo rilevato la ristrettezza e la limitatezza, e precisamente il parlamentarismo, come separazione del potere legislativo da quello esecutivo.