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Marx and Engels on Revolution

Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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The Communist Manifesto - Capitalism, Crisis, Revolution, Class

Marx and Engels love the productive powers of capitalism, or at least they are all struck by them. So what's needed is for the proletariat to take over the state. That is the revolution. The guns are going to have to be turned round and pointed the other way. Once the oppressed in class the bourgeoisie have been got rid of,. What need is there for the state at all?

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