Schafik Jorge Handal: The conquest of power by the proletariat in order to put an end to capitalism cannot be brought about by voting or by electoral maneuvers. Without deprecating, of course, the useful contributions participating in elections can make to the cause of revolution, it is necessary to go back to Marx in order to underscore the fact that the main role in the development of the revolutionary process and its victorious culmination is played by revolutionary violence — the “midwife of history,” as Marx called it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote3433