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https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1962/xx/dictprolet.html
The great dictator
... if the Assembly had been possessed of the least energy, it would have immediately dissolved and sent home the Diet ‒ than which no corporate body was more unpopular in Germany ‒ and replaced it by a Federal Government, chosen from among its own members. It would have declared itself the only legal expression of the sovereign will of the German people, and thus have attached legal validity to every one of its decrees. It would, above all, have secured to itself an organized and armed force in the country sufficient to put down any opposition on the part of the Governments.
But instead the Assembly of old women failed to take up the cause of, and recognize, the revolutionary uprisings that had broken out, or “to call the people to take up arms everywhere in defence of the national representation,” Always. “they shrank back from decisive action.” The old governments of the German states “had counted upon a very dictatorial and revolutionary action on its part” but in fact the Assembly gave them little cause to worry.
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