[7] The Paris Commune, contemporary to Blanqui and Karl Marx, being viewed by some as the first attempt at a proletarian revolution.
[9][10] Through Marx and Friedrich Engels' work they write that if the proletariat does not make up a majority, it must at least occupy an important position among the popular mass to achieve a proletarian revolution.
This vanguard is meant to provide leadership and organization to the working class before and during the revolution, which aims to prevent the government from successfully ending it.
The Situationists' view is that as well as the standard proletariat being a driving force for revolution, other oppressed classes would also act as drivers.
But a revolution that aims to abolish the entire system of wage slavery must also do away with the power of one class to oppress another.
That is, it is not any more a mere change of rulers, of government, not a political revolution, but one that seeks to alter the whole character of society.