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  • Tychoxii [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    dictatorship of the proletariat is when the means of production are mostly owned by the bourgeoisie

    big brain takes on my chapo?

      • Tychoxii [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        control of the means of production via the state. the state being controlled by the proletariat.

        you can say that in practice the proletariat has to make concessions to the bourgeoisie during some period but having the mops being mostly owned by the bourgeois is not a feature of the dictatorship of the proletariat. the whole point is to shift to workers owning the mops (via the state) and control the state to prevent counterrevolution.

          • Tychoxii [he/him, they/them]
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            4 years ago

            ok so we are mostly mental wanking by now but defining the dotp as a period where the mops are mostly owned by the bourgeoisie seems a bit ass backwrds.

            also, even if you have literally nationalised and collectivised all the mops (all the big, beautiful mops, folks) the bourgeoisie may technically not exist anymore but they won't happily accept the new status quo, which is why the dictatorship of the proletariat is necessary to protect the collectivisation. so in my view the dictatorship of the proletariat would still exist after the bourgeoisie/proletariat are technically no more.