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Communism succeeded in Russia and China because those were peasant revolutions using communist ideology, not proletarian revolutions of the kind Marx expected.
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Peasant Revolution
Communism succeeded in Russia and China because those were peasant revolutions using communist ideology, not proletarian revolutions of the kind Marx expected.
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"It's always about how much money do you have? Okay? So, so communism and capitalism together conquer the world. Okay? Does that make sense?..."
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"...the communist revolution was not a communist revolution. It was a peasant revolution with the veneer of communism. So, communism was the ideology, the..."
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"...say when you do that, all you're doing is creating a peasant revolution which will lead to a dictatorship of the peasantry."
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