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Dictatorship of the Proletariat

The necessary transitionary stage between capitalism and communism in Marxist theory. A state controlled and wielded by the proletariat used to dismantle bourgeois control. Not to be confused with a normal dictatorship.
The USSR was an example of an attempted Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
by ihatewom_332 January 24, 2021
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