Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!ames!al From: al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: What is socialism? (Dictatorship of the Proletariat) Message-ID: <829@ames.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 19:07:57 EST Article-I.D.: ames.829 Posted: Thu Feb 28 19:07:57 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 08:15:11 EST References: <325@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> <21248@lanl.ARPA> <> <334@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 13 > Lenin adopted this concept (Dictatorship of the Proletariate) > in *State and Revolution*, but he did not address > the question of the role of the party -- clearly, there is a big difference > between the "DotP" and the "DotP under the guidance of the Party." Lenin > also interpreted the DotP to mean the ruthless suppression by the > proletariat of its enemies... I used to have a quotation of Lenin's on my refrigirator. I don't remember the exact wording, but the general idea was: Dictatorship of the proletariate means nothing more or less than the state imposing it's will unfettered by any law or custom and supporting itself directly by force.