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DOTP

DOTP is the initialism of dictatorship of the proletariat.

Meaning of dictatorship of the proletariat

Noun

dictatorship of the proletariat (countable and uncountable, plural dictatorships of the proletariat)

  1. (Marxism) A socio-political power characterized by a struggle to achieve a communist society, as opposed to the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
    • If a revolution is to be victoriously carried through, it will require a concentrated power, a dictatorship at its head. Cromwell's dictatorship was necessary in order to establish the supremacy of the English bourgeoisie; the terrorism of the Paris Commune and of the Committee of Public Safety...1962 [1852], Joseph Weydemeyer, “The Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, in Hal Draper & Horst Duhnke, transl., Labor History, volume 3, number 2, translation of original in German, page 217 of 214 -...

Forms of DOTP

alternative formDotP

Questions about DOTP

What is DOTP the initialism of?
DOTP is the initialism of dictatorship of the proletariat.

Words near DOTP in the dictionary

  1. dotlike
  2. dotmocracy
  3. Doto
  4. dotoid
  5. dotoids
  6. DOTP
  7. dotplot
  8. dotplots
  9. DOTr
  10. dotriacontahectane
  11. dotriacontanal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DOTP (page history and authors); dictatorship of the proletariat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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