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Karl Marx advocated a one-party state.
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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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Is it true that Karl Marx advocated a one-party state?
Unclear. Two sources only partially bear on the claim: one reference guide describes Marx as advocating democratic reforms and a socialist political order, and a Wikipedia article attributes the one-party communist state to Marxism–Leninism and Lenin's vanguard party rather than to Marx himself. Neither directly settles whether Marx advocated a one-party state.
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Elwell, F. W., Andrews, B., & Hicks, K. S. (2020). Karl Marx. play.google.com. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=RyaAEQAAQBAJ&source=gbs_api
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Marxism–Leninism - Wikipedia. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism
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