Dictatorship of the proletariat
MARXIST CONCEPT REGARDING THE TRANSATIONAL PERIOD FROM CAPITALISM TO COMMUNISM
Proletarian dictatorship; Dictatorship of proletariat; Dictatorship of the Proletariat; Dictature of the proletariat; DOTP; Dictatorship of Proletariat; Dictatorship of the proletarian; Democratic dictatorship of the proletariat; Proletarian state; Proletarian democracy; Proletariat dictatorship; Left-wing dictatorship
In Marxist philosophy, the dictatorship of the proletariat is a condition in which the proletariat holds state power. The dictatorship of the proletariat is the intermediate stage between a capitalist economy and a communist economy, whereby the post-revolutionary state seizes the means of production, compels the implementation of direct elections on behalf of and within the confines of the ruling proletarian state party, and instituting elected delegates into representative workers' councils that nationalise ownership of the means of production from private to collective ownership.