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State and Revolution: Marx, Lenin, & the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Red Menace

CHAPTER

The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

The dictatorship of the proletariat, as it moves to universalized proletarian power, cannot immediately do away with state functions. The only way to overcome a dictatorship of a small ruling class is for the large, exploited class to rise up and overthrow it. In order to free humanity from slavery, we must crush by force those who exploit us. Democracy can't be an extension of democracy together with an immense expansion of democracy," he says. "As soon as it ceases to exist for the vast majority of people, then there is no democracy"

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