The Russian Proletariat

Drotsky argued that the nature of the russian economy at that moment meant even though they were relatively few in numbers and still dwarfed by the rural peasantry, the pro arian workers wielded potential power. And on top of that, even tho they remained a quantitative minority, their qualitative strength was enormous. So the proletariats position that close to the actual gears of the russia economy gave them enormous disproportionate power to bring absolutism crashing down. But remember, mark's concept is that this would happen only after a majority of the population had been proletarianized and converted from rural peasants into urban wage workers. Dictatorship of the proletariat was supposed to simply mean rule of