In the event, the proletariat through the dictatorship of the proletariat would establish a communal State (per the 1871 Paris Commune model), then gradually suppress the dissenting bourgeoisie, in achieving the withering away of the State as its institutions begin to ``lose their political character''. Thus, following Marx's conclusions on the Paris commune, which Lenin took as _his_ model Lenin declared that the task of the Revolution was to smash the State. <sep>, Pronoun: his