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A proletarian revolution or proletariat revolution is a social revolution in which the working class attempts to overthrow the bourgeoisie and change the previous political system.[1][2] Proletarian revolutions are generally advocated by socialists, communists and anarchists.[3]
Interpretations
The concept of a revolutionary
Marx wrote of the
Marxists believe proletarian revolutions can and will likely happen in all capitalist countries,[6][10] related to the concept of world revolution.[11][12] The objective of a proletarian revolution, according to Marxists, is to transform the bourgeois state into a workers' state.[13][14] A traditional Marxist belief was that a proletarian revolution could only occur in a country where capitalism had fully developed,[15][16] though this changed with Russian Revolution.
The
Other Marxists, such as
Finally, there are
See also
- Communist revolution
- Free association of producers, the ultimate goal of communist and anarchist revolutions
- Labour revolt
- October Revolution
- Asturian miners' strike of 1934
- List of peasant revolts
- Revolution of 1934
- Proletarian Revolutionary Organisation, Nepal
- Social revolution
- World revolution
References
- ^ Liulevicius, Vejas (13 July 2020). "Russia: The Unlikely Place for a Proletarian Revolution". The Great Courses Daily. Archived from the original on 19 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ Lenin, V. I. (1918). "Chapter I: Class Society and the State". The State and Revolution – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- JSTOR 40240824.
- ^ Blake, William James (1939). An American Looks at Karl Marx. Cordon Company. p. 622 – via Google Books.
- ^ Spector, Maurice (15 March 1934). "The Paris Commune and the Proletarian Revolution". The Militant. Vol. III, no. 11. p. 3 – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ a b c Blackburn 1976.
- ^ Eagles 2017, pp. 23–24.
- .
- ^ Ree 2013, p. 32.
- ^ Engels, Friedrich (October–November 1847). The Principles of Communism – via Marxists Internet Archive.
Further, it has co-ordinated the social development of the civilized countries to such an extent that, in all of them, bourgeoisie and proletariat have become the decisive classes, and the struggle between them the great struggle of the day. It follows that the communist revolution will not merely be a national phenomenon but must take place simultaneously in all civilized countries – that is to say, at least in England, America, France, and Germany.
- ^ Bukharin, Nikolai (1933). "Chapter 4: The Theory of Proletarian Dictatorship and Scientific Communism". Marx's Teaching and its Historical Importance – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ Lenin, V. I. (1918). "Chapter 5: The Economic Basis for the Withering Away of the State". The State and Revolution – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ Goichbarg, Alexander [in German]. Revolução Proletária e Direito Civil [Proletarian Revolution and Civil Law] (in Portuguese).
- ^ a b Guérin 1981, p. 14.
- ^ Lane 2020; Filho 2007 Ree 2013, p. 35
- ^ Lenin, V. I. (1918). "How Kautsky Turned Marx Into A Common Liberal". The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ Lenin, V. I. (1918). "Bourgeois And Proletarian Democracy". The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ a b Dunayevskaya 2017.
- ^ Lenin, V. I. (1916). "II". The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ Deutscher, Isaac (May–June 1967). "The Unfinished Revolution: 1917–67" (PDF). New Left Review. I (43).
- ISBN 978-1-60846-776-1.
- ^ Várnagy, Tomás (19 April 2021). "A Central European Revolutionary". Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Archived from the original on 10 October 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- International Socialist Review. Archived from the originalon 4 June 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ Mattick, Paul (August 1938). "The Masses & The Vanguard". Living Marxism. Vol. 4, no. 4. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023 – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ Pannekoek, Anton (1941). "The Party and Class". Modern Socialism. Vol. 2. pp. 7–10. Archived from the original on 17 December 2023 – via Marxists Internet Archive.
- ^ Chomsky, Noam (12 March 2013). "Noam Chomsky on Revolutionary Violence, Communism and the American Left". Pax Marxista (Interview). Interviewed by Christopher Helali. Archived from the original on 29 July 2015 – via chomsky.info.
- ^ Eagles 2017, pp. 24, 27.
- ^ Berkman, Alexander (1929). "25". .
Works cited
- Blackburn, Robin (May–June 1976). "Marxism: Theory of Proletarian Revolution". New Left Review. I (97).
- ISBN 978-90-04-34761-8. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- Eagles, Julian (2017). "Marxism, Anarchism and the Situationists' Theory of Revolution". .
- Filho, Almir Cezar (5 April 2007). "Moreno e os 80 anos do debate sobre a Revolução Permanente" [Moreno and the 80 years of the debate on the Permanent Revolution] (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 16 December 2007. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
- Guérin, Daniel (1981). Anarchism and Marxism.
- Lane, David (22 April 2020). "Revisiting Lenin's theory of socialist revolution on the 150th anniversary of his birth". European Politics and Policy. London School of Economics. Archived from the original on 26 February 2024.
- Ree, Erik van (2013). "Georgii Plekhanov and the Communist Manifesto: The Proletarian Revolution Revisited". Revolutionary Russia. 26 (1): 32–51. .