According to Marx, the bourgeois capitalist state would fall as a result of its contradictions, and power would pass to the proletariat, which would use it to create a classless society. There would be an interim phase in which the proletariat used the power of the state to eliminate the vestiges of what Marx considered a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The transitional phase was dubbed “the dictatorship of the proletariat.”
Of course, in the real world, nothing like this happened. The revolution came in agrarian countries, not the advanced capitalist western European nations. The proletariat was not up to the job of revolution. The task of representing the presumed interests of workers fell to a self-appointed group of middle class intellectual conspirators who called themselves the Communist Party. The dictatorship has lasted 68 years in China, and there is no end in sight. . .