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Lenin's Brain Just Killed Itself
The Chinese Communist Party tried to organize the working class in the cities, but the nationalists at every turn fucked their shit up. Mao and those guys looked around and saw that this mass of dispossessed Haka peasantry in southern China. These people who were generationally rural proletariat. Who had had no land because they were the descendants of immigrants from northern China. They had been working generationally as laborers in the countryside. Instead of dealing with this contradiction Lenin's brain exploded so that he wouldn't have to deal with it.