Also known as “proletarian revolution” or “proletarian socialist revolution”. It is that the proletariat (through the Communist Party) leads the working people, overthrows the rule of the bourgeoisie and the capitalist system, establishes the dictatorship of the proletariat and socialist system, and finally realizes the communist revolution. Socialist revolution is a form of revolution that collects political revolution, economic revolution and social revolution in one. Under the leadership of the proletariat, the socialist revolution unites all forces that can be united, such as the working class, the peasantry and the petty-bourgeoisie in opposition to the bourgeois revolution. The proletariat must carry to completion the democratic revolution, by allying to itself the mass of the peasantry in order to crush by force the resistance of the autocracy and to paralyze the instability of the bourgeoisie. The proletariat must accomplish the socialist revolution, by allying to itself the mass of the semi-proletarian elements of the population in order to smash by force the resistance of the bourgeoisie and to paralyze the instability of the peasantry and the petty-bourgeoisie…
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