Marxist Politics and The Fate of the Bourgeoisie

QUESTION: Marxist Politics – The Fate of the Bourgeoisie

ANSWER:

Marxist-Leninist politics explicitly calls for the proletariat to suppress the bourgeoisie by violence and force. Lenin writes, “The state is a special organization of force...an organization of violence for the suppression of some class. What class must the proletariat suppress? The exploiting class, i.e., the bourgeoisie.”¹

Marxist Politics – Confiscation of Property
In a similar vein, Lenin says, “We must crush [the bourgeoisie] in order to free humanity from wage-slavery; their resistance must be broken by force.”² In addition, the dictatorship of the proletariat will require confiscation of property. All of this will be accomplished through the guidance and governance of the Marxist party.

¹ Claire Sterling, The Terror Network: The Secret War of International Terrorism (New York, NY: Berkley Books, 1982), 203.
² V.I. Lenin, Selected Works, 38 vols. (New York, NY: International Publishers, 1938), 7:81.