Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.
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"The 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' to use Marx's term, is the only possible form of transition from capitalism to communism."
"When we are victorious on a world scale, I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of the world's largest cities. This would be the most 'just' and most ed…"
"The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses."
"The only real guarantee against counter-revolution is the arming of the entire proletariat."
"A man with a rifle is a citizen with a vote."
Russian revolutionary who led the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and founded the Soviet state; What Is to Be Done? (1902) shaped 20th-century revolutionary practice. Closely associated with Leon Trotsky (his Red Army organizer and 1917 partner) and Karl Marx (the source Lenin claimed (and adapted)). For an intellectual contrast, see Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher — Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) systematically attacked Marx-and-Lenin 'historical inevitability' as the philosophical structure that produces totalitarianism — Lenin's vanguard-party doctrine is Popper's primary 20th-century target.
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