• folaht@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    21 hours ago

    Oh, so the bigger issue was whether or not to trust the peasantry, as they were not the labourers Marx thought would come to overthrow the capitalist system, more so than national socialism versus world government socialism?

    If so, thank you for making me learn something new.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      Yep, bingo, though Marx never said the peasantry would oppose socialism, just that they would have petite bourgeois ideology, which is true.

      • folaht@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        21 hours ago

        I was more imagining Trotsky saying that the peasantry would while Stalin didn’t, turning into a fued.
        I didn’t think Marx would even have an opinion on that issue.

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          15 hours ago

          It goes back to why the proletariat specifically is the main revolutionary class, which is historical materialism in action.