Class dictatorship

(see also, state)
 
This is the term used to describe the situation wherein a single class obtains and maintains control over political power. All states are class dictatorships – they question is merely which class they serve.
 
The current form of the state is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the dictatorship of the exploiters over the working people. “The democratic republic… general elections, etc., are in practice, the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and for the emancipation of labor from the yoke of capital there is no other way but to replace this dictatorship with the dictatorship of the proletariat.”

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