• Akasazh
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    5 months ago

    Drake meme:

    Archieve true communism

    Stay dictator of the proletariat for just a bit longer

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      The dictator of the proletariat isn’t one guy. It’s the group of people who work. As opposed to now where most countries are a dictatorship of the wealthy.

      It literally means the workers (like you and I) dictating the rules. If you’re a commie it means democratically. Who dictates the rules now? The wealthy.

      Red scare propaganda is so exhausting…

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        5 months ago

        Right, a dictatorship OF the class proletariat OVER the class bourgeoisie. And can, should, or even needs to be a democracy WITHIN the proletariat.

        Unfortunately, tankies turn the phrase into an excuse for authoritarianism, which they wank over.

        Marx himself called the Paris Commune to be an example of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The Commune had universal suffrage and recall of neighborhood representatives on demand.

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        5 months ago

        It really is exhausting, i hate that there is effectively zero Marxist lit in libraries in the USA and if there is, somone stole it or hid it.

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          There’s no dictatorship of the proletariat in Marx, though.

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            “Long before me, bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this struggle between the classes, as had bourgeois economists their economic anatomy. My own contribution was (1) to show that the existence of classes is merely bound up with certain historical phases in the development of production; (2) that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; [and] (3) that this dictatorship, itself, constitutes no more than a transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.”

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              No mention of the dictatorship falling on the shoulders of a strong man and keeping it there though.

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                Just pointing out that the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is a concept Marx envisioned, even if very differently than MLs.

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                  Yeah cheers for that, my meme was indeed aimed at that interpretation