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Critically examine Marxist theory of the state with reference to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Theories of the State

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For Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels every state is class rule: political power is "merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another" (The Communist Manifesto, 1848). The dictatorship of the proletariat is its hinge — the state between the bourgeois state's destruction and the end of the state itself. The test is whether…

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