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Declaration of rights read by Robespierre in the Jacobin club, April 21, 1793, and adopted by the club as its own.

"The people is sovereign, the government is its work and its property, and public functionaries are its clerks.

The people can displace its mandatories and change its government when it pleases."] [Footnote 1102: Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and other dictators that like that also organized elections and saw themselves as being the people, speaking and acting on their behalf and therefore entitled to do anything they pleased.( SR).] [Footnote 1103: Rightly so, might Lenin have thought when he first read this text.

Later, under his and Stalin's leadership the Party, guided by the first secretary of its central committee, aided by the secret police, should penetrate all affairs slowly extending their power or influence to the entire world through their secret party members, mutually ensuring their promotion into the highest posts, the party will eventually come to govern the world.

(SR).] [Footnote 1104: Buchez and Roux, III, 324..