What is a socialist or communist revolution?

There are a lot of people out there in this nation today that don't know exactly what some of the revolutionary political theory or thinking is, or what is the basic framework of a socialist revolution is. My aim with this hub is to try and educate those of you whose political thinking is on the same level as my own and other socialist theorists in our society. Most of the content that follows is from the Wikipedia website under the Communist revolution section. 

A communist revolution is a proletarian revolution inspired by the ideas of Marxism that aims to replace capitalism with communism, typically with socialism as an intermediate stage. The idea that a proletarian revolution is needed is a cornerstone of Marxism; Marxists believe that the workers of the world must unite and free themselves from capitalist oppression to create a world run by and for the working class. Thus, in the Marxist view, proletarian revolutions need to happen in countries all over the world; see world revolution.

Leninism argues that a communist revolution must be led by a vanguard of 'professional revolutionaries' - that is, men and women who are fully dedicated to the communist cause and who can then form the nucleus of the revolutionary movement. Some Marxists disagree with the idea of a vanguard as put forth by Lenin, especially left communists but also including some who continue to consider themselves Marxist-Leninists despite such a disagreement. These critics insist that the entire working class - or at least a large part of it - must be deeply involved and equally committed to the socialist or communist cause in order for a proletarian revolution to be successful. To this end, they seek to build massive communist parties with very large memberships.

See the articles on communism and communist states for further discussion regarding the goals and results of some of these revolutions.

Remember, political knowledge is power. Educate yourself about the issues in our nation and don't just depend on the mainstream media to find out what those issues are. Self education is the duty of all good citizens, and failure to do so has and will continue to result in our becoming a nation of meek sheep. Knowledge is power.