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Single Idea 24307

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism]

Full Idea

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, i.e. of the proletariat organised as the ruling class.

Gist of Idea

The proletariat will become the ruling class, wresting all capital, and centralising production

Source

Karl Marx (Collected works (w Engels) - 50 vols [1860], Vol 6:504), quoted by Jaime Edwards/Brian Leiter - Marx 3.4A

A Reaction

It strikes me that Marx failed to grasp the importance of education in the modern world. To run the modern world the proletariat need education, but it is obvious that highly educated people tend to become bourgeois.

Book Reference

Edwards,J/Leiter,B: 'Marx' [Routledge 2025], p.81