Who Marx thinks should rule...?

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So, after reading Howard Zinn's The People's History of the United States for a history class, I've become much more cynical of government and have recognized the need for a truly egalitarian system. I agree with Zinn (and other communists) that equality cannot come from reform, that a revolution of "the Guards" is necessary. However, I'm curious as to how Karl Marx (or Zinn) thinks a society should be politically operated. Clearly, our current republic is corrupt; our politicians seek mainly to benefit themselves and their corporate allies. So what is Marx's alternative?

Bill · Accepted Answer

And there you've hit upon the great problem of the socialist utopia. If you ever find the answer, be sure to let the world know.

? · Answer

1) Proletarian Revolution to take the power
2) Proletarian Dictatorship to flat the social field on a single class system(elimination of the Capitalists and re-education of the population)
3) Socialism or Communism (in the last case with dissolution of the government)

Weather Underground (Bill Ayers) had this plan for the US, with a planned elimination (killing) of about 25 million people...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlN2t0oERHk

Truth is that EVERY single tentative has always stopped at the point 2, becoming a mass murderer dictatorship

"Capitalism is the unfair distribution of wealth,
Communism is the fair distribution of poverty" - Winston Churchill

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Who Marx thinks should rule...?

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