THIS IS REVOLUTION＞podcast Ep. 217: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Death of the Left w/ Chris Cutrone

In a recent article, entitled The Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Death of the Left, Chris Cutrone wrote: “Today, the ostensible ‘Left’ — the avowed ‘socialists’ — have abandoned the goal of the dictatorship of the proletariat, either in words or in fact, the latter by reinterpreting the dictatorship of the proletariat to mean the governing of capitalism by sociologically working-class political parties in a welfare-state or so-called ‘social democracy’.” What is the dictatorship of the proletariat? Why is it a critical concept for Marxists? And why has it been ‘abandoned’ by the contemporary left?

 

Chris Cutrone

Chris Cutrone is the original lead organizer of the Platypus Affiliated Society and the Campaign for a Socialist Party and teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Institute for Clinical Social Work.

@ccutrone1970

https://chriscutrone.platypus1917.org/

 

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