The particular historical task and role of the proletariat in the transition of human society from class society to classless society, i.e., under the leadership of the proletarian party, unite all exploited workers, overthrow the rule of the bourgeoisie through the proletarian revolution, establish the dictatorship of the proletariat, realize socialism and communism, and liberate the whole mankind. The Communist Manifesto pointed out that the proletariat must first of all form a class, forcibly overthrow all existing social order, overthrow the bourgeois supremacy, conquer the political power, and win the battle of democracy, so that the proletariat can rise to the position of the ruling class, use its political rule, wrest, by degree, all the capital from the bourgeoisie, abolish bourgeois private property, centralize of all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i.e. of the proletariat organized as the ruling class, and increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible…
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