Offers an analysis of Marx's controversial theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat, arguing that it can no longer be displaced or ignored as the viable democratic centre of Marxist political thought. The book traces the development of the theory from the early work of Marx and Engels to 1924.

Kautsky's assault on the dictatorship of the proletariat as practiced by the Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution is one of the most remarkable and controversial documents in the history of Marxism. Written in 1918, it brought attacks from Trotsky and Bukharin and provoked Lenin to Write The Proletarian Revolution and Renegade Kautsky.

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