"It's totally unlike the elites that we aim to supplant, who claim to know what the masses need but in fact are more interested in maintaining and expanding their own power. We would never do that, unlike every other supposedly-Communist regime that has ever existed."
Tel Aviv, May 9 - Members of a loose collection of progressive political activists acknowledged today that they occasionally wrestle with the tension between their insistence that they pursue the most equitable and proper form of democracy and the fact that never have their chosen political candidates, agendas, and parties garnered a credible democratic mandate from the electorate.
Israeli advocates for a "dictatorship of the proletariat" in line with Marxist ideology stated in separate interviews this week that here and there they have considered the apparent contradiction between their arrogation of speaking for The People and the lack of material, electoral, or other support from people in any significant numbers that might justify that arrogation of speaking for The People.
"Democracy and the voice of the individual are paramount," declared Nimrod Livni, who left the progressive Meretz Party last year over concerns the institution had abandoned its Communist roots by supporting a government at whose helm sits a man who openly observes religion, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. "Unfortunately, not enough people understand the truth about economic and political systems, but if they did understand, they would flock to our banner in overwhelming numbers. It's the political and economic capitalist hegemony that suppresses the truth, whereas we represent the truth, which mean that in truth, we represent what they would choose if they knew the truth. We know that's true because we say so."
"We're totally different from older systems, which are both structurally oppressive and obsolete," added Amira Hirsch, who earlier insisted that Hadash, an avowed Communist party, betrays its declared principles by participating in a corrupt system instead of fomenting the violent revolution necessary to replace it with the inevitable people's utopia that will result if she and her allies make the decisions. "Whereas in former times, unappointed, unelected elites of the nobility and aristocracy set policies that affected the masses, we represent a different sort of elite in touch with the real needs of the masses, since the masses don't know what's good for them. It's totally unlike the elites that we aim to supplant, who claim to know what the masses need but in fact are more interested in maintaining and expanding their own power. We would never do that, unlike every other supposedly-Communist regime that has ever existed. Real Communists never do that."
At press time, Hirsch was still holding forth on the subject of every failing of previous Communists stemming from capitalist bourgeois sabotage.