Concept
Communist revolution
Overview
A communist revolution is a proletarian revolution inspired by the ideas of Marxism that aims to replace a nation's economic system with communism. Depending on the type of government, the term socialism can be used to indicate an intermediate stage between capitalism and communism and may be the goal of the revolution, especially in Marxist–Leninist views. The idea that a proletarian revolution is needed is a cornerstone of Marxism; Marxists believe that the workers of the world must unite and free themselves from capitalist oppression to create a world run by and for the working class. Thus, in the Marxist view, proletarian revolutions need to happen in countries all over the world.
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Proletarian revolutions, on the contrary, such as those of the nineteenth century, criticize themselves constantly; constantly interrupt themselves in their own course; come back to what seems to have been accomplished, in order to start over anew; scorn with cruel thoroughness the half measures, weaknesses and meannesses of their first attempts; seem to throw down their adversary only in order to enable him to draw…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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The proletariat goes through various stages of development. With its birth begins its struggle with the bourgeoisie.
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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America, being self-contained and strong, would be capable, so far as material conditions go, of achieving a successful revolution; but in America the psychological conditions are as yet adverse. There is no other civilized country where capitalism is so strong and revolutionary Socialism so weak as in America. At the present moment, therefore, though it is by no means impossible that Communist revolutions may occur…
Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
States what Communist revolution is; names Communist revolution twice.
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