Thinking about the edifying exchanges among Yoshie, Ted, et al....
One way in which the socialist revolution must be qualitatively different from past revolutions in the mode of production ( it is a revolutionary revolution) is that it must be executed by a _class conscious_ exploited and oppressed class - thus, all the emphasis on making proletarians class and socialist conscious. The rule of the proletariat must be that of the first exploited and oppressed class-mass of historical subjects . There is no "Subject" or super Subject exactly; consciousness is divided into individuals.
Historically, the key to the rule by exploiting classes has been that their class consciousnesses have been superior to that of the exploited/oppressed classes over which they ruled. The lack of historic subjectivity has been what kept the wretched of the earth down.
The revolution we aim for changes that lack of consciousness and subjectivity, and thus abolishes the exploiting class form of society as a type ( per se).
As they say, without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement. If that revolutionary theory does not grip masses of individuals, including with the conscious goal of overthrowing capitalism, the revolution will not take material form or be actualized.
Charles