Hi Toadfrog:
I am fustrated... I have a wee copy of the C.M. by my desk at all times... and it has gone missing... ( add THAT to my FBI file! ;) )... but here goes from memory, Marx writes that the world has lived under the dictatorship of the minority who own the means of production... but that we need to go to the dictatorship of the prolatariot... the majority, which Marx felt was only possible, as stated in the Manifesto, if there is an unfettered press, as he could not emagine that in a modern world the information would come from a single sourse, TV for the most part, rather than the easy to produce small newspaper and flyer. It was Lenin who redefined dictatorship of the prolatariot as a true dictatorship ruling in the interest of the majoirty, rather than the majority (the prolatariot) ruling in their own interest. It was this type of redefinition that inspired the Bolshivics to kill off the Menshevics.
Cheers
Larry