proletarian revolution
Class overthrow movement
A proletarian revolution is the overthrow of a capitalist system by the working class, a concept central to Marxist theory.
In this framework, workers (the proletariat) seize control of the means of production from the bourgeoisie, establishing collective ownership and eliminating class distinctions.
The term carries strong ideological weight and appears most often in political theory, historical analysis, and revolutionary rhetoric.
The Bolsheviks believed they were leading a proletarian revolution that would spread worldwide.
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- class consciousnessAwareness of economic group identity
- strike actionOrganized labor protest stoppage
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
socialism · bourgeoisie · general strike · industrial workers · mass mobilization · petty bourgeoisie · communism · armed insurrection · seize power · workers' councils · red flag · Leninism · Trotskyism · means of production · Spanish Civil War · peasantry · feudalism · social upheaval
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, Engels
- LeninismLeninism, Bolshevism, party organization, party discipline, Comintern
proletarian revolutionincrementalism
Change through small steps
reformism · social democracy · social reform · parliamentary democracy · status quo
proletarian revolutioncounterrevolution
Reversal of political upheaval
reaction · conservatism · restoration · palace coup · ancien régime
proletarian revolutionlaissez-faire economics
Minimal state economic involvement
neoliberalism · Reaganism · Thatcherism · anarcho-capitalism · classical liberalism
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