The communist society which Marx predicted world arise from the ruins of capitalism will begin with a transitional phase, ‘the dictatorship of the proletariat’. Once the communist system has been fully established, the reason for being of the dictatorship and therefore its existence will end. Bourgeois society represents ‘the closing chapter of the prehistoric stage of human society’.
The communist society of the new era is without classes, without contradictions. The dialectical principle now cases to operate. The contradictions of human history have now been negated in a final harmonious synthesis.