Miniscule but gigantic in proportion to the vast peasantry, and newly empowered by movement into urban areas, which enabled them to be the key revolutionary agent. Again, rev agency is not a matter of size, but position in the means of production.
@@ThePsycoDolphin You cannot have a tiny revolutionary class unless it is an elite revolution. A tiny, subjugated class simply does not HAVE a large place in the means of production, unless you're looking at society from a purely abstract-theoretical point of view.
@@RadicalCaveman The Russian working class was small in relation to the peasantry. Lenin and the Bolsheviks argued that only an alliance of the working class and the peasantry constituting the vast majority could be victorious in the revolution. Only the working class could lead and hold this alliance together they argued, as it was in it's intrinsic interests to do so and because of its strategic role in the most advanced methods of production. This was recognised however as a temporary affair as the level of culture and of production in Russia was too low to sustain the revolution. Therefor the victory of the international working class, primarily at the time the German working class, was judged to be essential. So the size of the Chinese working class was important but it's orientation and leadership of other classes would have been central to any successful socialist revolution in China.
When did Lenin state that Socialism could not be built in one Country,show your Source of this statement,Stalin had the Support of the Majority of the members of the Communis Party Delegates hence he was Elected Leader, the Socialist System in the Soviet Union was the most sucsessfull Economy in History,in the Middle of a war they transfered a huge amount of industry 1000 miles east and produced the Armements needed to Defeat the Nazi Invaders,this achievement would have been impossible in a Capitalist Country..This man talks a lot of meaningless hot air.
great presentation, rob!
Great
Other than that comment about China having a legitimate claim to Taiwan which wasn't expanded on I pretty much agree with the speaker on this.
In actuality, there was only a miniscule proletariat in prerevolutionary China.
Miniscule but gigantic in proportion to the vast peasantry, and newly empowered by movement into urban areas, which enabled them to be the key revolutionary agent. Again, rev agency is not a matter of size, but position in the means of production.
@@ThePsycoDolphin You cannot have a tiny revolutionary class unless it is an elite revolution. A tiny, subjugated class simply does not HAVE a large place in the means of production, unless you're looking at society from a purely abstract-theoretical point of view.
@@RadicalCaveman
The Russian working class was small in relation to the peasantry. Lenin and the Bolsheviks argued that only an alliance of the working class and the peasantry constituting the vast majority could be victorious in the revolution. Only the working class could lead and hold this alliance together they argued, as it was in it's intrinsic interests to do so and because of its strategic role in the most advanced methods of production. This was recognised however as a temporary affair as the level of culture and of production in Russia was too low to sustain the revolution. Therefor the victory of the international working class, primarily at the time the German working class, was judged to be essential.
So the size of the Chinese working class was important but it's orientation and leadership of other classes would have been central to any successful socialist revolution in China.
When did Lenin state that Socialism could not be built in one Country,show your Source of this statement,Stalin had the Support of the Majority of the members of the Communis Party Delegates hence he was Elected Leader, the Socialist System in the Soviet Union was the most sucsessfull Economy in History,in the Middle of a war they transfered a huge amount of industry 1000 miles east and produced the Armements needed to Defeat the Nazi Invaders,this achievement would have been impossible in a Capitalist Country..This man talks a lot of meaningless hot air.
A legitimate claim to Taiwan ?