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Léon-Jean-Bazille Perrault (French, 1832-1908) Fast Asleep, 1896

On the Role of Peasants and Agrarian Workers in a Socialist Revolution

All my life I had lived in a very rural and poor area. We lack access to many good jobs, education, housing, etc. This is ultimately because the Neoliberal capitalists have left the agrarian backbone of America to be left out to dry, resulting in a rising reactionary tendency among them. It doesn’t have to be this way. We think of people within the redder and rural states as ‘backwards’ and reactionary when that is not the full case. In fact, they are prime to radicalization if we take the measures to do so. Additionally, they must be needed for a socialist revolution to work.

Many modern socialists, especially the dogmatic ones, only focus on the workers who labor at the factory. They do not recognize the agrarian workers, who both Lenin and Mao knew needed to have on their side during a revolution. The Communist Party of the Philippines does rightfully employ this well established tactic of agrarian organizing, and that is why they are slowly gaining the upper hand in the war. The Communists during the Chinese Revolution also recognized the importance for a revolution to liberate the peasantry. However, modern American socialist parties have failed largely to gain any foot within rural and mostly agrarian parts of the United States, and that is part of the reason as to why we socialists in America have yet to achieve anything meaningful in recent years. That’s why I propose to you that we need to establish a principled, marxist party, who can do organizing with the rural and farming people of America.

It is as clear as day, our revolution must include both agrarian and the industrial workers together!

As V. I. Lenin had put it:

“The victory of the working class is impossible without an alliance with the peasantry.”

He was indeed true, we will not achieve proletarian revolution if we do not work with the rural, agrarian workers. Lenin had argued that only an alliance between the industrial proletariat and the peasants could advance us to liberation. Does this hold true today? Most definitely.

As Lenin did, we also must accept that the peasant class of Russia, just as the farmers in America, were not a homogenous class. There were the poor peasants who only owned very, very little land or had worked land for another. There were the petit bourgeois peasants who had owned meager amounts of land and were able to be split either direction on whether they would work with the revolutionaries or remain reactionary. Lastly, there were the Kulaks who were the reactionary peasants that owned large amounts of land, often being stubborn to collectivize said land. The same can be applied to the United States. There are agrarian workers who are exploited, and are in prime condition to be radicalized by a proletarian interest. There are the people in the middle, who may own say a small family farm. They usually don’t take a bourgeois position in relation to means of production, but they still own their land. Then there are the major landowning farmer businesses, which tend to exploit people on mass, and with some of the harshest conditions. They are the utmost reactionary and are not to be included in the revolution.

This alliance which I stress must be held between industrial and agrarian, urban and rural, and all exploited peoples, is not just because I see them both oppressed by the same boot, but because they cannot work without each other. It is simply impossible to have a revolution without both and expect the revolution to advance socialism. The alliance of the two under a vanguard is a necessary strategic method we must employ. Additionally, we must not just lay in the realm of theory but in practice. What exactly will the impoverished agrarian workers gain from a proletarian revolution? Firstly, self determination. We marxists believe a community should have access to self determination, not to be controlled in the grips of a company, sadly, such is the case often times in farming towns. Secondly, land reforms. All people’s and communities should be able to collectively work their land, for them and the community, not for the interest of the bourgeoise. Thirdly, access to healthcare, appropriate infrastructure, clean water, education, and food. All things which many of these red, republican, rural and agrarian areas lack due to both mainstream parties having let them down.

So what should you take away from this essay?

Despite what the established American left believes, the agrarian, impoverished, rural, and conservative areas of America are absolutely necessary places to do our revolutionary outreach to. We must provide solutions and goals to them and have them on our side if we are to win a socialist revolution. We must organize the agrarian and industrial proletariates together, for our liberation!