...raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy, to .wrest, by degrees,...total of productive forces as rapidly as possible. Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights...

...proletariat." * In the Communist Manifesto the same idea was expressed in other words thus: "The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees,...of the proletariat organized as the ruling class." 2 The Communist Manifesto gives also a forecast of the measures which the proletariat of the 1 Letter...

...chiefly with the welfare of the workers as consumers, as social beings. "The proletariat," says Marx, "will use its political supremacy to wrest by degrees...bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in Hie hands of the State, ie, of the proletariat organized as the ruling class." But why will the proletariat...

...revolution. As far back as 1848, Marx and Engels (in the Communist Manifesto) asserted that "the proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest by degrees all capital from the bourgeoisie," and laid down an elaborate program of measures for the gradual socialization of industries in "the...

...movement " involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas." Political power must be used " to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State." This has to be done " by degrees," and each country must pursue its own appropriate method. The items...

...rights and methods of production of the bourgeoisie, little by little take from them all capital and centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, ie, in the hands of the proletariat organized as the rulingclass." Marx and Engels recommended therefore...

...-without a fight of some sort. Having won its fight, the proletariat would use its political power "to wrest by degrees all capital from the bourgeoisie,...instruments of production in the hands of the state, and to increase the total of productive foTces as rapidly as possible." Thirty years later Engels said...

...obtained. The authors of the Communist Manifesto proposed that the proletariat should use its power "to wrest by degrees all capital from the bourgeoisie,...instruments of production in the hands of the state, that is, of the proletariat organized as the ruling class, and to increase the total of productive...

...first fall into the power of Marx's dogma, that "the proletariat use its political supremacy to wrest all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all...instruments of production in the hands of the State — that is, of the proletariat organized as a ruling class." In that event we shall only have new...

...raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battles of democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees,...organized as the ruling class ; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible." In the beginning this cannot be accomplished except by measures...