The proletariat leads the working masses through the communist party, unites other progressive social classes, overthrows the rule of the bourgeoisie, establishes the dictatorship of the proletariat, abolishes the capitalist private property in the means of production to establish public property in the means of production, gradually eliminates the bourgeoisie and all the exploiting classes, and ultimately realizes communism and liberates whole mankind. Human emancipation and the realization of the ideal society of true freedom and equality have always been the eternal ideal and pursuit of mankind. However, before Marx, the path of human emancipation was tinged with utopianism. Faced with the reality of the cruel rule of capitalism and the fate of the exploited proletariat, the founders of Marxism realized that only proletarian revolution is the real bridge towards the emancipation of the proletariat and even the emancipation of all mankind. The emancipation of the working class can be the work only of the working class itself. It is self-evident that the working class cannot leave its emancipation either to the capitalists and big landowners, its opponents and exploiters, or to the petty-bourgeois and small peasants. The emancipation of the working class and the working people depends on themselves. The theory of proletarian revolution is an important content in the ideological system of Marxism…
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