To Gambetta the scrutin de liste was the truly republican form of representation, the one existing under the National Assembly and Abolished by the reactionaries under the new constitution.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
Baboeuf's ambition was to found what he called a true democratic republic, and by a true democratic republic he meant one in which all inequalities, whether of right or of fact, should be Abolished, and every citizen should have enough and none too much.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
There are socialists who fancy they have but at any moment to choose a government and issue a decree, as Napoleon once did-"Let misery be Abolished this day fortnight"-and misery would be Abolished that day fortnight.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae