Marxist Theory: Engels, Lenin, and Dialectical Materialism
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The Distortion of the Proletariat
To get socialism you have to destroy the present state which is basically a state of the capitalist class. Lenin once or twice too said that it could be possible for angles thinks at the end of his life he thought the German socialist was so powerful that it might be possible for them to take over the state and then dismantle the parts they don't like and have a socialist state. In general the idea was that if the state would have to be replaced by a term they used called the dictatorship of the proletariat but there are people in my party who say oh we can’t have a dictatorship nobody wants to have a dictatorship dictatorship is that's a dumb idea.
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