Dictatorship of the Proletariat

In Marxism, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is a state in which the working class, rather than the elite, has political power. It is not dictatorship in the sense of being ruled by a Hitler or Stalin, rather, the rule of a class. The United States is not truly a democracy, but rather the dictatorship of the rich. For these reasons, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is actually, in a way, a form of democracy. Unfortunately, for the Soviet Union, the working people ended up being ruled under a corrupt, undemocratic bureaucracy. Leon Trotsky viewed the Soviet Union as a "degenerated workers' state" which would eventually either degenerate into a capitalist class, or be overthrown by a political revolution.