Put very simply, the Marxist movement understands the process as follows: the working class will take over state power (by insurrectionary means according to the Leninist wing of Marxism; by parliamentary means according to the reformist wing); the state will then abolish private property, either all at once or over a short period of time; and, after a certain period of adjustment (called by the Leninist wing the “dictatorship of the proletariat”), socialism will be ushered in. Under socialism itself, in keeping with its fully democratic, classless structure, state power in the sense of the
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