Just say "people's democracy" or "democratic republic" which is what most socialist countries call themselves.
"dictatorship of the proletariat" was Marx's materialist way of describing popular democracy in contrast to bourgeois democracy. As democracy and states are authoritarian dictatorships for the purpose of class oppression no matter who controls them.
It was also meant to drive home the point that "this is not good and by no means the final stage of communism". Mainly as a critique of the Gotha Program, which seemed to take a "free people's democracy/state" as it's end state which he thought was fucking stupid and meaningless.
Just say "people's democracy" or "democratic republic" which is what most socialist countries call themselves.
"dictatorship of the proletariat" was Marx's materialist way of describing popular democracy in contrast to bourgeois democracy. As democracy and states are authoritarian dictatorships for the purpose of class oppression no matter who controls them.
It was also meant to drive home the point that "this is not good and by no means the final stage of communism". Mainly as a critique of the Gotha Program, which seemed to take a "free people's democracy/state" as it's end state which he thought was fucking stupid and meaningless.