Dictatorship of the proletariat

always oppressive, and the proletariat are always oppressed by the bourgeoisie. The labor theory of value presumes that all of the value in a product comes from the labor it took to create it. This would suggest that since the proletariat are the working class that creates products,they should be the upper class, instead of the bourgeoisie. The theory of the nature of state assumes that all forms of government are tools of the bourgeoisie to help oppress the proletariat, which is why, in theory, communism

However, elements of discontinuity are also present as the revolution was perverted by the Stalinist structure as the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat” soon became the dictatorship of Stalin. Furthermore Stalin’s theory of “Socialism in One Country” betrayed that of the Marxist-Leninist theory of propagating socialism to other countries. In order to fully assess the validity of the statement, two

Communism, the idea I will be looking at the theory of communism, which describes an end to bourgeoisie (private) property, according to Marx. I will argue that it is not a defensible utopia. I accept that we may not have had a true communist nation, but this highlights the unrealistic nature of communist, rather than its inevitability as Marx believed. Similarly I will argue the nature of communism as described by Marx necessarily leads to centralised planning, as market relations are abolished

the revolutionary vanguard party as being separate from the proletariat class. Their reasoning being that the working class themselves would remain limited by their own trade’s union consciousness and therefore, would need the assistance of the Central Committee to lead them in the methods to achieve the socialist revolution. For Luxembourg, however, the vanguard party would need to be rooted and systematically connected to the proletariat class itself in order for the revolution’s spontaneity and

The Proletariat in Russia A proletariat is a key figure in the philosophy of Karl Marx. A proletarian is someone who does not own any means of production. Their only income comes from selling their own workforce. In the Russian language "proletariat" is describing their working class. In the middle of the 19th century, German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels saw the "ghost of communism." They both believed the proletariat would change this revolution. A revolution is an open measurement

In 1917, Russia was in a state of transition. Its government was not built to last and its people were hungry for change. In the midst of this turmoil, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks emerged, promising a better life. Although their revolution was based on the works of Karl Marx, Lenin himself developed many ideas that would turn Marxism into a realistic, functioning system. Several such ideas were developed in The State and Revolution (1917), an important work that provided a lot of good analysis

Marx’s teachings, because Lenin believed Marx’s plans were created specifically for Germany, and because Russia had not achieved the high level of industrialization needed for a full proletariat revolution. As a result, the literal teachings of the Communist Manifesto were lost in the whirl of Lenin’s socialist dictatorship and Bolshevik propaganda, but in the end, Russia was still moving towards communist goals. From early on, Lenin was well acquainted with Marx and Engels’ works and referenced them

Revolution: Marx and Luxemburg Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg both articulate and describe the idea that the revolution is the only means available to the proletariat in the process of over throwing the capitalist class, however, where Marx and Luxemburg differ in their theories on revolutionary activity is in outcome after the revolution after the abolishment of capitalism; or more specifically in the case of Marx, the Bourgeois. In their respective writing’s, Marx and Luxemburg share similar ideas

of government and organization. While communism and fascism may be slightly similar, they are different. The idea of communism originated in a writing by Karl Marx, in which he explained communism as a dictatorship of the proletariat. Although Marx, wrote of a perfect dictatorship of the proletariat, this has sadly not been seen as possible. Throughout

Marx believed that the existence of these two classes will lead to an eventual conflict, an uprising of the proletariat by seizing production from the bourgeoisie leading to a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’, Marx stated in a letter to J. Wedeymeyer “And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois