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11. Why are Communist countries all one-party dictatorships?
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Marxism and the Peasants
When it came to peasants, Marx didn't see them as reliable supporters of socialism. The role of the communist intellectual or activist was supposed to be to teach people about the idea of socialism and help them organize themselves. And that's when you'd start to see communist revolutions happening in the most highly industrialized societies with the biggest proletariat. Later on in his life, after the Paris commune, Marx thought more favorably about the potential for peasants to ally with workers.
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