10. The conception of the Class Dictatorship of the Proletariat has nothing in common, but its name, with the dictatorship of a single person or an oligarchy, nor with the dictatorship of the class-conscious revolutionary minority, when this minority is attempting to rule over the majority of the people even in the interests of these people. Revolutionary Social Democracy protests most decisively against the principle of the Dictatorship of a Minority, which contradicts the most fundamental truths of Socialism, that the liberation of the working class is the task of the working class itself. The principle of the Dictatorship of a Minority in the opinion of the Revolutionary Social Democracy,is degrading to the working masses as an object of social experiment. In every attempt to bring about the Dictatorship of a Minority in open or veiled form Social Democracy perceives the greatest danger to the revolutionary development of the working class and to the success of the Social Revolution. Therefore, Social Democracy renounces any policy of terrorism as a method of Revolutionary Dictatorship, by means of which a minority of the Proletariat endeavours to retain in its own hands the power already denied to them by the majority of the working masses.
