Single Idea 20099

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 9. Communism]

Full Idea

For the communists the proletariat rather than the state was the locomotive of history.

Gist of Idea

For communists history is driven by the proletariat

Source

Micklethwait,J/Wooldridge,A (The Fourth Revolution [2014], 3)

Book Reference

Micklethwait/Wooldridge: 'The Fourth Revolution' [Penguin 2014], p.71


A Reaction

I feel increasingly reluctant to support any party which appears to mainly represent the interests of a single social class, no matter how large that class may be. An attraction of liberalism is that it makes no reference to class.