Nietzsche conceives the Dionysian as his version of Schopenhauer's Will to Live. However, while the latter is plainly a principle of all biological nature, Nietzsche treats the former as one that is specific to Humans. In other words, it is his Species-principle. Now, according to the descriptions in Birth of Tragedy, in the ancient Dionysian festivals, not only class, but even individual, distinctions are dissolved. Thus, his Species-principle is inherently neither Capitalist nor Marxist. For, Individuality is inessential to it, and Revolution is not its resolution of Class-Conflict.
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