“Dictatorship of the Proletariat”: what did Marx mean?

  “Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat”.    This statement by Marx, in the Critique of the Gotha Programme, has … Continue reading “Dictatorship of the Proletariat”: what did Marx mean?