The Question Of Equality

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eradicating the rich, equality is achieved with one bold
stroke.

The trouble with this formulation, however, is that the dictator-
proletariat is itself dictated upon by an all-powerful Party, while even among
the poor there is a hierarchy of classes, beginning with the "advanced"
proletariat, followed by the peasantry, the intellectuals and the petite
bourgeoise. Moreover, there is a contemptible class, the lumpenproletariat, a
term reserved for "the scum of the earth."

Stated, therefore, in Marxist-Jacobinist terms, the rebellion of the
poor is self-contradictory: it is unable to approximate the egalitarian idea.

The reason for this lies in the heart of Marxism itself equality is
exclusively regarded as a relation between social classes, hence, the solution
to bourgeoise domination is proletarian dictatorship. In sum, while the
domination is proletarian dictatorship. In sum, while the domination of one
class is oppressive, the domination of another is not. But the ...

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