...supremacy in order gradually to wrest the whole of capital from the capitalist class, to centralise all the instruments of production in the hands of the State, ie, of the proletariat organised as the ruling class and to increase as quickly as possible the total of productive forces."...

...of democracy. (Note the word democracy. It does not mean a representative republic.) The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees,...hands of the State, ie, of the proletariat organized by the ruling class. Of course in the beginning, this can not be effected except by means of despotic...

...example, the dictatorship of the proletariat and its role in the social revolution. The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, ie of the proletariat organized...

...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, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, ie , of the proletariat organised...

...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, all capital from the bourgeoisie" (MCP, 490, my emphasis). It is only in polemical texts written after the violence of 1848 that Marx...

...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...

...to seize political power in order to "wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie," and then to "centralize all instruments of production in the...of the proletariat organized as the ruling class." All production, moreover, would be "concentrated in the hands of the vast association of the whole...

...position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy". They went on to explain that the working class "will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, ie, of the proletariat organised...

...purpose had already been foreshadowed by Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto: The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, ie, of the proletariat organised...

...in neglecting the importance of economic variety and pluralism. In their repeated calls for efforts 'to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state' they denied the enduring value of decentralisation, markets and a mixed economy. In this manner, the...