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Without communist consciousness, the revolution will reproduce a system that serves the dominant class.
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dateCreated = 2026-06-14T19:23:00+02:00
dateUpdated = 2026-07-03T10:13:00+02:00
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In the Manifesto of 1848, Marx and Engels say that all those bourgeois
revolutions — as the dominant class were the feudal lords and aristocrats — e.g.
Bonapartist revolution, the one in Germany, the anti-colonial ones, etc., do not
change the system; i.e. the system of class division and subjugation of one to
the other persists. The ones that ended monarchies and feudalism, starting
republics, allowed for the political development of capitalism.

What about the revolutions from the bottom (which in this current society and
moment of History, can only be a proletarian revolution)?

> The dominant ideology is the ideology of the dominant class.

It also states in some way in the Manifesto that the communist consciousness
comes from without, later strategized by Lenin in "What is to be Done?" the way
to bring it. Without it, the dominated class during the revolution will end up
only changing the superstructure of the society again to an "anti-communist"
one, like the radical democracy of France at that time, or trade-unionism.

The problem that we have is that most people have no direct contact with the
same German ideology, utopian socialists, anarchism, and other philosophical,
historical, and economic tendencies that Marx and Engels as intellectuals had
access to at their time and place (also because of their social status), not
allowing the average person to arrive to the same conclusions as Marxism, ending
up following dominant class tendencies like the ones from the Chartists in
England's 1830s–40s or following Lassalle's ideology in Germany a bit later in
that century. Tendencies like these or others of the worker's movement
throughout History serve to learn from the previous errors.

One's or his factory/school's economic struggle isn't enough. One of the
vanguard's goals — besides preparing for the agitation of the masses and
directing them during a revolutionary moment, analyzing the current dominant
class ideologies, etc. — is to introduce the Marxist materialist philosophy and
teach scientific socialism and History (permitting further self-historical
materialism analysis) and to give political denunciations from all classes and
their political struggles and relations, creating new internationalist
revolutionary socialists; new communists. Elevating their political
consciousness to that of a communist with our hard newspaper. Creating the
conditions so that they can be "more Marx and Engels" (they can't exist
anymore), and forging new professional revolutionaries.

This way we prevent revisionism based on dominant ideologies like the
Marxist–Leninist/Stalinist "socialism in one country" creating this reactionary
patriotism/nationalism against internationalism, that then Trotskyism followed —
all called "the correct follow-up of Leninism" by their defenders — using Lenin
to advocate for united fronts, allowing class collaboration, and ending up with
this "anti-imperialist" campiest tendency that defends a bourgeois of an
"oppressed state", like "defending Cuba/Palestine against American imperialism".

The revolutionaries mentioned were deceived by their own bourgeois corrupted
theory, thinking they were right at the time. From outside, we see they weren't,
and we should learn from it.