Whoever calls himself revolutionary and speaks of dictatorship is only an imbecile or a traitor.
-- Joseph Dejacque
Whoever calls himself revolutionary and speaks of dictatorship is only an imbecile or a traitor.
-- Joseph Dejacque
Anyone who hears "dictatorship of the proletariat" and thinks it's counter-revolutionary is ignorant of Marxism and needs to educate themselves.
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That's not the way I see it. From what I've read of the Soviet Union and Cuba, to use just two examples, the state was truly a class dictatorship of the proletariat.
I would say the Soviet Union as well.
The period of state capitalism, the NEP (New Economic Policy), only lasted from 1921 to 1928 and only existed to rebuild the Russian economy after the Civil War. After that, Stalin initiated the first of three five-year plans and the transition into socialism. The bureaucratic elite within the Soviet Union also can not be equivocated with a traditional oligarchy, which is a small group of individuals controlling the state, which wasn't the exact case in the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union had a planned economy, nationalized the means of production, and made extensive efforts to abolish capitalist class structures. It was not a perfect socialist system and experienced many deviations, but it was unequivocally a socialist state committed to socialist goals, and I am viewing this from a Marxist point of view.