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Why not Democracy - rule by the demos - the poor ordinary people
The idea of the workers' state or the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' was that it was a state within capitalism that was used by the proletariat to uproot/destroy capitalist relations of production and thus the basis for classes (including a proletariat as such). You can call it whatever you want (and 'the dictatorship of the proletariat' is a political non-starter after its misuse), but the class content/objective should be clear. michael Michael A. Lebowitz Professor Emeritus Economics Department Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
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