> Isn't it true that in Marx and Engels, the proletariat makes the
> revolution, while in Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, the revolution makes the
> proletariat?
"Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; the revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class can not be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew." The German Ideology, p. 94-5 in Int'l Publishers ed.