Marx and Engels allied with Jacobins against Proudhon and elevated the state dictatorship principle to core Marxist-communist ideology.
Among the most consequential contributors to this debate was François Furet, who argued that the Terror could not be dismissed as an aberration; it was an event intrinsic to the revolution itself. According to Furet, the Marxists were also mistaken in their economic analysis, since the revolution had little to do with class conflict; it was essentially a contest over competing ideologies—one egalitarian, the other authoritarian.
MARX BELIEVED IN BLOODSHED
Interview with Karl Marx, Chicago Tribune, January 5 1879: "Well, then, to carry out the principles of socialism do its believers advocate assassination and bloodshed?" "No great movement," Karl answered, "has ever been inaugurated Without Bloodshed."
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