Like all opportunists, including the present Kautskyists, he utterly fails to understand that, first of all, the transition from capitalism to socialism is impossible without some 'reversion' to 'primitive' democracy (how else can the majority, and even the whole population, proceed to discharge state functions?); and, secondly, he forgets that 'primitive democracy' based on capitalism and capitalist culture is not the same as primitive democracy in prehistoric or pre capitalist times.