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But what happened to ‘class struggle’ in the country where the Bolsheviks who followed the Communist Party Manifesto reached power? In October 1919 Lenin claimed: ‘The class struggle continues; it has only changed shape’. And so we find a dramatic turn of events in the history of Marx and Engel’s theory of class struggle. We are now in the presence of a class struggle that is developed from above, by a party that has come to power.
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Losurdo, D. (2016). Lenin in 1919: ‘The Class Struggle is Continuing—It has Merely Changed its Forms’. In: Class Struggle. Marx, Engels, and Marxisms. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-70660-0_8
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