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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America

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The Dilemma of the Proletariat

Dictatorship is a contested term basically it grows out of the idea that capitalism involves the dictatorship of the captives. The more money you have the more rights you have, but if you're a poor worker you can't afford a 500 dollar an hour lawyer oftentimes you have to go to a public defender who was overwhelmed with cases and then whether you're guilty or innocent compels you to engage in a plea bargain. That's an illustration of the dictatorships of the bourgeoisie where you're right or dependent upon your pocketbook. I think today what happens is that when people with the term dictatorship it rings alarm bells right later on but I think after the alarm bells are wrong that should cause

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