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Oh, so the bigger issue was whether or not to trust the peasantry, as they were not the labourers Marx thought would come to overthrow the capitalist system, more so than national socialism versus world government socialism?
If so, thank you for making me learn something new.
Yep, bingo, though Marx never said the peasantry would oppose socialism, just that they would have petite bourgeois ideology, which is true.
I was more imagining Trotsky saying that the peasantry would while Stalin didn't, turning into a fued.
I didn't think Marx would even have an opinion on that issue.
It goes back to why the proletariat specifically is the main revolutionary class, which is historical materialism in action.