With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.


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With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in giving a hiding to the classes that were previously ...

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in giving a hiding to the classes that were previously ...

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in giving a hiding to the classes that were previously ...

With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in giving a hiding to the classes that were previously ...