How has their prediction of communist revolutions played out in real-world events? “We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible. Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.” 1

A. During the Vietnam War, the Soviet Union protected North Vietnam from an attack by South Vietnam.
B. The armies of North Korea, China, and Russia invaded South Korea in an attempt to spread communism.
C. The Russian working class overthrew the existing government to establish a communist state.
D. Several African communist groups joined together in the Warsaw Pact to resist European colonialism.