THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT ROAD TO TOTALITARIANISM AND A NEW CLASS.

THIS PAPER IS DEVOTED TO THE SUBJECT OF THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT, ANALYZING WHETHER THIS DICTATORSHIP REALLY BELONGED TO THE PROLETARIAT OR WHETHER IT SERVED OTHER INTERESTS, GIVING RISE TO A NEW RULING CLASS. DID THE LEININIST REVOLUTION SUCCEEDED IN ITS AIM TO PUT THE BASE FOR A STATE AIMING TO BUILD A CLASSLESS SOCIETY, OR IT WAS DIVERTED - VOLUNTARILY OR NOT - TO OTHER AIMS AND FUNCTIONS? BUILDING ON THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF MARX AND ENGELS, WHO COINED THE TERM "DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT", LENIN ADAPTED ITS THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL UNDERSTANDING TO THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION. LENINIST THEORIES ARE SPECIAL BECAUSE HE ARGUED THAT A PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION CAN TAKE PLACE EVEN IN A WEAKLY INDUSTRIALIZED STATE LIKE RUSSIA, WHICH IS A DISTORTION OF THE MARXIST THEORY THAT THE PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION SHOULD TAKE PLACE IN HIGHLY INDUSTRIALIZED STATES. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]