Abstract:  The theoretical focus of Marx’s and Engels’thinking on the proletarian revolutionary strategies in their later years is to combine the legal struggle for universal suffrage with the violent revolution, try to surpass the contradictory tension between the legal struggle and the violent revolution when touching “social reality”, and formulate a new revolutionary strategy at its integration point. After the death of Marx and Engels, Bernstein comprehensively criticized and revised Marxism and set off the ideological trend of “peaceful growth into socialism”. With the emergence of Bernstein’s revisionist view, Lenin criticized Bernstein’s theoretical danger of “peaceful growth into socialism” in a negative sense, found the solution path of “coexistence and recognition”of the proletarian revolutionary strategy and its accompanying legal struggle and violent revolution from Marx and Engels, and defended the logical connotation of scientific socialism.

Key words:  , struggle for universal suffrage, peaceful growth into socialism, violent revolution