The Bolshevik Bash? The Proletariat Prix?
Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution
the working class majority
Karl Marx believed that the communist party should serve as the vanguard of the proletariat, leading the working class in overthrowing the capitalist system. The party's role is to organize and mobilize the proletariat towards revolution, to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat, and eventually usher in a classless society.
The proletariat is the working class who sell their labor for wages.
middle class and working class
For Karl Marx the proletariat constituted the living embodiment of all the evils and all the promises of capitalism. As painful as capitalism was to the working class, that economic system was necessary to bring about the workers' revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
This viewpoint is a key tenet of Marxist ideology, which argues for the working class (proletariat) to overthrow the capitalist system controlled by the bourgeoisie. According to Marx, this revolution would lead to a classless society where the means of production are owned collectively. However, whether or not this overthrow is necessary or achievable is a subject of ongoing debate and interpretation.
Lenin believed in the idea of socialism in one country whereas Marx believed in a worldwide revolution. Lenin also believed that revolution would not happen by itself and that it needed a group of revolutionary elite to lead it. Marx believed that all the proletariat would eventually rise and revolt.
After the revolution of the proletariat, the working class is expected to seize control of the means of production, leading to the establishment of a classless society where the state eventually withers away. This would result in a system where resources are distributed more equally and individuals are free from exploitation.
Well, he'd been dead for around two decades when the revolution happened, but he couldn't complain. It could be considered the proletariat revolution he predicted in his Communist Manifesto.
Lenin believed in the idea of socialism in one country whereas Marx believed in a worldwide revolution. Lenin also believed that revolution would not happen by itself and that it needed a group of revolutionary elite to lead it. Marx believed that all the proletariat would eventually rise and revolt.