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Originally posted by Spanky
This ideology is evidenced by the fact of wherever the communist party took over all other partys were made illegal. Can you name a country where a communist party took over where it did not turn into a dictatorship of the proletariate?
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I do not think this means what you think it means.*
I can't think of a single communist country that
did turn into a dictatorship of the proletariate
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These peole that flirted with communisim (many famous writers and artists etc) all believed in the dictatorship of the proletariate. Otherwise they were flirting with something else.
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Yes. And each believed that the society in the Soviet Union (and later, in other communist states) had not yet evolved and developed to a point where the proletariate could actually take over.
Sure, there was a violent overthrow of the former (corrupt) government of Russia. People died. But I don't think there was widespread knowledge in the US in the 20s and 30s of the Stalin purges killing millions, if only because they hadn't completely happened yet.
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Dictatorship of the Proletariate
