So I'm trying to understand the Bolshevik conception of proletarian and peasant dictatorship in the early years of the revolution, when the rallying cry was "All Power to the Soviets," and the single party state hadn't been inaugurated.
When the Bolsheviks spoke of a democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry, other classes were disenfranchised under the soviet system, correct? Could they have conceivably have regained their suffrage if they, for instance, voluntarily proletarianised themselves or became proletarians out of circumstances beyond their control? Or were there voting rights meant to be curtailed for the immediate future, whether or not they gave up their economic privilege?
Except Stalinists, no one speaks of a democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry. What is economic privilege but the means of production? They can't all be socialized at once, even with your few token-capitalists who are eking for socialism. So, the many little capitalists have no vote, don't know about their family, but until the 7th generation if need be.