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

Red Menace

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Defending the Proletariat Is Fucking Essential, Right?

One of the first act of the paris commune was not only to arm the people, but also this idea that the functions of the government were no longer put into the hands of a privileged class. The getting rid of the army and having the armed people instead is similar to the way in which the bureaucracy of the state no longer stands above as sort of e special, elevated, petty bourgeois. But are workers themselves now? And again, when we see this transition to the dictatorship of the proletariat, it really is.

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