Talk:Karl Marx/@comment-3338975-20121123050550

"The Dictatorship of the Proletariat is not rule by a Hitler or Stalin, but rather, the rule of a class. For this reason, it is actually, in a way, a form of democracy." - ? Actually, yes; it would be the purest form of democracy - rule by "the mob", or ? mass crowds - but I don't see how this ? would make a good thing, even in theory. Presumably, what one wants is a? republic - a system which is ruled for the sake of the public as a whole - which is emphatically? ''not? ''what the "Dictatorship of the Proletriat" is, as this focus solely on the economically dis-empowered as if mankind's entire destiny lied within them (the key mistake Marx made). What would make more sense, would be to empower the laboring class in such a way that the capitalist class sees it to their own gain to empower them further, so that the public as a whole flourishes, rather than landing us in a stagnant "utopia" for the sake of vindicatiing dispriviledged segment alone.