ABSTRACT
WE NOW come to the loci in which Marx and Engels used the term “dictatorship of the proletariat.” There are eleven in all (counting a work with more than one such passage as only one). They cluster in three periods: (1) 1850–52, i.e., after the revolution of 1848; (2) 1872–75, i.e., after the Paris Commune; and (3) 1890–91, this last period being, we shall see, a sort of echo from 1875.
