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10.7- Paris Commune Revisited

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The Urban Working Class Must Be the Only One to Stage the Revolution Backwards

The proletariat's relations to the means of production and their potential for achieving revolutionary class consciousness made them unique. The peasants, on the other hand, were ignorant, backwards, superstitious, selfish. They had no ability to form revolutionary class consciousness as marks evoked with his colorful description of the peasants as a sack of potatoes. So for the marxists, the urban working classes must be the ones and the only ones to stage the revolution backonand absolutely, 100 % disagreed with this.

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