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