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"If we translate the latin,scientific,historico-philosophical term'dictatorship of the proletariat'into simpler language,"Lenin wrote,"it means just the following:"Only a definite class,namely,the urban workers and the factory,industrial workers in general,is able to throw off the yoke of capital,in actually carrying it out,in struggle to maintain and consolidate the victory,in the work of creating the new,socialist social system,in the entire struggle for the complete abolition of classes."The theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat is the CRUX of Marxism.Only dictatorship,the undivided power of the proletariat,enables the proletariat to put an end to capitalism and build socialism.It is only natural,therefore,that the question of the dictatorship has always been,and remains,the pivot of the ideological struggle of Marxism-Leninism against reformism and revisionism.Lenin called the dictatorship of the proletariat the touchstone for testing the real understanding and recognition of Marxism.To be a Marxist it is not enough merely to recognize the struggle of classes,he said.You can be a Marxist only if you extend recognition of the class struggle to recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat. (1.)V.I. Lenin,A Great Beginning,Vol. 29,p. 420 by:Galeri |