The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally. Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)
The purpose of capitalist democracy is to provide a favorable situation for the exercise of free enterprise and not for the planning of a society that will make business a social service. If the commonality attempts to take the latter view of democracy and to implement it, the capitalist will quickly scrap the institution. Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)
The proletariat cannot vote for socialism in a bourgeois parliament because the capitalists will not permit themselves to be destroyed by their own instrument. The machinery of the capitalist state has been fashioned by the bourgeoisie to suit the needs of their class; therefore, in the achievement of its ends, the working class must contrive its own institutions. Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)