Political Science · Political Theory
The idea of the 'dictatorship of the proletariat' is found in which of the following writings of Karl Marx?
ADas Kapital
BTheses on Feuerbach
CCritique of the Gotha Programme ✓ Correct
DThe Holy Family
Correct answer: (C) Critique of the Gotha Programme — The phrase is elaborated in the Critique of the Gotha Programme, so the answer is that work.
Explanation
★The phrase is elaborated in the Critique of the Gotha Programme, so the answer is that work.
★Marx first hinted at the idea in the Communist Manifesto of 1848.
★He developed it fully in the 1875 Critique of the Gotha Programme as a transitional phase.
★The dictatorship of the proletariat is the rule of the working class between capitalism and communism.
★In this phase the state is used to suppress the old exploiting class before it withers away.
★The Theses on Feuerbach deal with the unity of theory and practice, not this concept.
★The Holy Family and Das Kapital develop other parts of Marx's critique of philosophy and economics.
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