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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I realize I expanded the scope by bringing Engels' "On Authority" into the conversation. I want to remain focused on Lenin's vanguard party as an implementation of the "dictatorship of the prolitariat". I agree that Lenin's ideas were informed by the writings of Marx.

Marx's "dictatorship of the prolitariat" could be implemented as a vanguard party as per Lenin. Lenin's iteration could be construed as accurate to Marx's definition.

However, Marx also referred to the Paris Commune as a "dictatorship of the prolitariat" even without a vanguard party. Therefore my qualm, similar to the original comment, is that Lenin's vanguard party is a method to extract rents from the prolitariat.