Marxism and the peasantry
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SummaryThe majority of Marxist theory correctly focuses on the revolutionary role of the urban industrial proletariat. A deeper reading of the first successful proletariat revolution reveals that a key albatross pulling on the neck of the Soviet system was the question of what to do with the rural peasant class, which constituted the vast majority of the Russian population in 1917. The political alliance forged between the proletariat and peasantry was recognized by Lenin as integral to the successful creation of a socialist society within Russia. In the absence of a working class revolution within one of the advanced capitalist nations, such as Germany, the hopelessly backward Russian social and political system was largely forced to take the socialist path alone after Lenin’s death in 1924. The consolidation of power by the Stalinist bureaucracy following Lenin’s demise came at a great cost to both the industrial proletariat and the rural labor force
Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- The main emphasis of Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky in relation to the role of the peasantry.
- Marx analysis of the peasantry's role in facilitating the elimination of the Bourgeois Republic of 1848.
- Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party.
- The theory of Permanent Revolution.
- Beyond the socio-historic development of the European peasantry in general and Russian peasantry in particular.
- Trotsky on the Soviet reliance on the economic success of the rich peasantry.
- The first four Congresses of the Communist International.
- Conclusion.
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