It is a pamphlet that many right-wingers and left-wingers do not understand, they take the name of the book in a literal way. Paul Lafargue was Cuban mixed with a black Cuban person, and a Black Haitian, ( known as Mulato in Cuba ) and he was one of Marx secretary and married to one of his daughters. During the time of Marx, many words had others meanings including the word Dictatorship taken from the Roman legal system which meant the government, proletarian was taken from the Roman, etc, etc. The dictatorship of the proletariat meant the government( temporary measure ) of the proletariat and Lenin distorted the whole things