Original text - Engels - The Red Guards are communists who have risen in...

The Red Guards are communists who have risen in open rebellion against the government, and, more importantly, against all of what they consider to be the reactionary trappings of the bourgeois state, and even society. In opposition to the institutions of religion, tradition, private ownership and family, these revolutionaries seek instead to establish a 'Dictatorship of The Proletariat', the first step on the long, corpse-strewn way to the promised classless utopia of Communism.