• Jonna@lemmy.world
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    10 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.