The dictatorship of the proletariat - Maximilien Rubel
Maximilian Rubel's 'Le Monde', 7 May 1976 contribution to the debate around the French Communist Party's 'abandonment' of the dictatorship of the proletariat. In it, he characterises it as being linked to the party's long-term abandonment of Marx and the primacy of the struggles of the working class in favour of their own vanguardist ambitions.
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There is much else of value
There is much else of value in this book.
I would particularly recomend the last short chapter entitled 'Marxism:Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow', written in 1978 it still has much relevance today in a number of discussion threads on libcom in it's inclusion of some pertinent comments on 'academic marxism' and the relation between 'objective' and 'subjective' conditions favouring a potential rupture with capitalism.
I'm still trying to find an on-line version to link here but if anyone else can trace it that would be great.
So I realise that the text I
So I realise that the text I mention above is still available on this site:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1978/marxism.htm
along with some but not all the others listed thete.