... communism (classless phase) which is a stage of relaxation with abundant necessary ingredients for the fulfilment of societies' aspirations. This is the stage at which the proletariat have taken over the mantle of power. Lenin viewed the takeover of state power by the working class as the principal indicator of a socialist revolution, an indicator without which it cannot be regarded as such ... proletariat, postulates the abolition of the old form of society in its entirety and dominion of itself, must first conquer for itself political power" (Zagladin V.V., ed. 1973:154-155). Charles ...

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