Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET November 2017 Political Science
Who feared that Marx's dictatorship of the proletariat would become a dictatorship over the proletariat?
ALassalle
BProudhon
CBakunin ✓ Correct
DLuxemburg
Correct answer: (C) Bakunin — The thinker who feared the dictatorship of the proletariat would become a dictatorship over the proletariat is Mikhail Bakunin.
Explanation
★The thinker who feared the dictatorship of the proletariat would become a dictatorship over the proletariat is Mikhail Bakunin.
★Bakunin was an anarchist who clashed with Marx in the First International over the role of the state.
★He argued that any workers' state, even a transitional one, would create a new ruling bureaucracy.
★This new elite, he warned, would dominate the very proletariat it claimed to serve.
★He therefore rejected Marx's transitional state in favour of the immediate abolition of the state.
★His prophecy is often cited in debates over the authoritarian turn of later communist regimes.
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