The revolution that destroys the bourgeois State apparatus and constructs a new State apparatus concerns and involves all the classes oppressed by capitalism. The revolution as a destructive act, however, has not been followed by the revolution as a process of reconstructing society on the communist model. The presence of these external conditions – a communist party, the destruction of the bourgeois State, powerful trade-union organizations – was not sufficient to compensate for the absence of another condition: the existence of productive forces tending towards development and growth, a conscious movement on the part of the proletarian masses to substantiate their political power with economic power, and a determination on the part of the proletarian masses to introduce proletarian order in the factor, to make the factory the basic unit of the new State, to build the new State as an expression of the industrial relations of the factory system. It is this later revolution that is essential in the establishment of a viable, working communist society.
