This October, Albertans will go to the polls to answer 10 referendum questions posed by our UCP government, an opportunistic political move meant to appeal to the party’s separatist base. Each question will be answered on a separate ballot, multiplying the workload of elections staff. Some estimates place the cost of this referendum as high as $130,000,000, a burden placed squarely on the shoulders of Albertans (including immigrant Albertans - who, despite the implication made by these referendum questions, are already paying for the costs of government).

This is an excerpt from a 1967 speech delivered by Kim Il Sung, then Central Committee General Secretary of the Worker’s Party of Korea. Per the (perhaps overly descriptive) title, it addresses the question of exactly what denotes the transition period between capitalism and socialism, as well as the function of the workers’ state (or dictatorship of the proletariat) throughout the essential milestones of socialist construction.