In Chinese revolutionary discourse, the term proletariat is trnaslated as property-less class which includes the landless peasants.
Henry C.K. Liu
Tom Lehman wrote:
> Jim, we as Americans tend to downplay the fact that Lenin was a
> politician and that he had a political power base among the Russian
> industrial workers in the main cities of Russia. Namely St.
> Petersburg/Petrograd and Moscow.
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> Although this power base may have been small in ratio to the total
> population; it existed in the nerve centers of Russia among a key
> element in the population. There is a real interesting analysis of
> this by a woman(whose name I can never remember) who teaches at
> Oberlin College entitled Forging Revolution. There are also some
> memoirs of early Russian union guys that are also worth reading---the
> Bolsheviks were the party of the industrial workers and they made the
> Bolsheviks---some of this stuff is obscure and hard to find because it
> went against later dogma. Shylapnikov's(sp) memoirs(1923) are good on
> this point; so are the memoirs of the first commandant of the
> Kremlin(1960's).
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> When you get into the late 1920's what I see is a forced attempt to
> increase the size of the industrial working class at the expense of
> the small farmers and the then relatively pampered industrial workers.
> That might make good Marxist sense, but, poor common sense.
>
> Your email pal,
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> Tom L.
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> Barbara Laurence wrote:
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>> Isn't it true that in Marx and Engels, the proletariat makes the
>> revolution, while in Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, the revolution makes
>> the
>> proletariat?
>> Jim O'Connor
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