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Jiang's basic social model of revolution is that bourgeois counter-elites use the proletariat as the muscle of revolt, then often try to control or kill the revolution when it threatens their interests.
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Proletariat
Jiang's basic social model of revolution is that bourgeois counter-elites use the proletariat as the muscle of revolt, then often try to control or kill the revolution when it threatens their interests.
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The proletariat are precarious urban craftspeople who tend toward violence and supply the muscle of revolutions, while petite bourgeois thinkers often supply leadership.
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"...a town then you have what what we call later the proletariat okay the proletariat are the lower class of a town they include..."
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"...those who need the people to revolt against the elites the proletariat will be the muscle or the army okay and the forces e..."
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"...will be referred to in the future, not now, as the proletariat. Proletariat. The proletariat are basically artisans, craftspeople, people who work in cities..."
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"...industries. All right, so this is the idea of creating a proletariat. All right, or manufacturing. And this is what capitalists want, guys, okay?..."
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"...is merely organized power of one class for oppressing another. The proletariat, during its contest, with abortion, is compelled by the force of circumstances..."
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"And for the proletariat to win, they need a party, okay? They need a vanguard party. But, hey, once this vanguard party establishes itself..."
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"...Marx believes you need a vanguard, in order to lead the proletariat into a socialist paradise. You need an elite in order to lead..."
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"Once industrialization happens, capitalism will automatically make the proletariat class conscious. And when they're class conscious, they become industrialized. They will unite and overthrow..."
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"...Germany would be the big brother because Germany had the most proletariat. It was the most urbanized. And maybe the French, as well. But..."
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"...expands and as a result it's going to create a global proletariat and because they're all oppressed they're going to come in and come..."
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"...only lead to crisis. And then because of the crisis, the proletariat will organize, and then rebel, and then create a worker's paradise, which..."
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"...will happen in Germany first. Because Germany had the most advanced proletariat. But, it never happened in Germany. It didn't happen in France. It..."
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Robespierre is not read as a dictator who simply loses control.
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The French Revolution is not introduced as politics first.
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