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He argues that the Romanovs failed to flee because they believed peasant love, Orthodox legitimacy, and European royal relatives protected them.
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Peasants
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He distinguishes Lenin's contribution as accelerating revolution through a party and Mao's contribution as building a peasant uprising under communist legitimacy rather than a worker-led Marxist revolution.
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Class loyalties in revolution are unstable; in the French Revolution, religious interest led peasants and nobility to cooperate against revolutionaries who threatened Catholicism.
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Peasants are loyal to religion because over generations religion becomes tradition, land, family, food, habit, and the felt texture of home.
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The lecture explains European antisemitism as a structure in which nobles depend on Jews as middlemen, peasants encounter them as agents of exploitation, and elites redirect conflict onto Jews.
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Jiang uses Canudos as a second example of peasants who could defeat regular armies hand-to-hand because religious and revolutionary commitment made them unafraid to die.
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Jiang says revolutions are typically led by elite factions that channel popular frustration, while genuinely organic peasant uprisings without an intellectual leadership stratum are usually suppressed violently.
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Jiang uses ancient Rome to argue that imperial war, debt, and land consolidation can turn peasants into a renter class and generate the social base for populism.
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"...armies who come in. They have the Greens, who are the peasants, okay? They have lots and lots of enemies. And at this time..."
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"...the Bolsheviks to win out, but also, they're beloved by the peasants. They're part of the Orthodox church tradition, and they have relatives who..."
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"Okay, so China is an interesting example, because when Marx was examining the world, the two places he didn't really consider are Russia and..."
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"Even though peasants, peasants become workers, if you have a party to help the, the process, okay? So, that was Lenin's contribution. And Mao..."
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"...king. So, yeah, I would say that if it's an organic peasant movement, it will be easily suppressed."
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"...estates. Now, when they started these wars, they would conscript these peasants. And because these peasants could no longer work the land, they had..."
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"...on their economic interests. And it is not definite that the peasants will work with the petite bourgeoisie against the nobility. In fact, during..."
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"Well, it's because they have different religious interests. Okay? Does that make sense? All right? So this is a framework that I want you..."
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"me why are peasants so loyal to the religion right okay great great question all right sorry let me um all right so what..."
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"This is true for most people. If you grew up eating, I don't know, rice, you don't want to eat potatoes. You want to..."
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"Eating potatoes is better for you. It's more nutritious, it's cheaper, you don't care. Okay? You're not feeling good. So you resort to habit...."
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"And the answer is, well, a lot of them are working for the nobility. Okay? The nobility inherit their wealth. But they don't want..."
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