[CatoRenasci]

Why, my boy, as Lenin said to Bertrand Russell you can't make an omlette without breaking eggs! Of course, the lumpenproletariat would have to be put to some useful work for the good of the state. If they didn't want to work, well, there's always the example of the Ukrainian famine or the Kola mines. Lumpenintellectuals, like all intellectuals - including socialist and Marxist intellectuals -- would simply be shot out of hand.

[CatoRenasci]

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[AmishDude]

Well, I knew that was what ended up happening and it's certainly the inevitable result, but I just wonder what the Marx/Engels "vision" was.

Of course, I thought the bourgeoisie were supposed to be the eggs. I guess that's the idea of a Communist revolution. If you believe it's inevitable, then you'd better be on the leading edge of it!