The 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' in Marx and Engels

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Year Published:  1987
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12500

What did the phrase 'dictatorship of the proletariat' mean to Marx and to his contemporaneous readers?

Subject Headings

• Class Conflict/Class Struggle
• Dictatorship
• Dictatorship of the Proletariat
• Revolutions of 1848-49