Lenin and Trotsky saw the peasantry as a revolutionary ally, unlike Marx
Evidence
Lenin and Trotsky, coming from Tsarist Russia, a society dominated by a peasant-subsistence or “backward” economy, saw the peasantry differently from Marx or Engels. … Both Lenin and Trotsky agreed that the rural relations of production were subject to “internal” antagonisms of class struggle (kulaks versus poor peasants) and, most importantly, that the peasantry could be an ally to the working-class movement. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1101
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Lenin and Trotsky recognized peasant class struggle and its revolutionary potential (similarity 0.91)
- Marx classified the peasantry as a backward class usable against socialist revolution. (similarity 0.81)
- Mainstream Marxists celebrated Russian peasant revolution while ignoring Black American rebellion (similarity 0.79)
- Only peasant-based revolutions succeeded while industrial workers failed to revolt (similarity 0.79)
- Successful revolutions of the era happened in peasant societies, not industrialized ones (similarity 0.78)
- Anti-imperialist peasant wars, not Western proletariats, drove twentieth-century revolutions. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Revolutionary socialism triumphed only in predominantly peasant societies
#expands(0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 982 - James judged Lenin a dialectical thinker while Trotsky remained trapped in fixed categories
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