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"Hymns to the sacred socialist property sound under these conditions a good deal more convincing to the manager or the Stakhanovist, than to the rank-and-file worker or collective peasant. The rank-and-file workers, however, are the overwhelming majority of society. It was they, and not the new aristocracy, that socialism had in mind." — Nov 24, 2025 05:13PM
"Hymns to the sacred socialist property sound under these conditions a good deal more convincing to the manager or the Stakhanovist, than to the rank-and-file worker or collective peasant. The rank-and-file workers, however, are the overwhelming majority of society. It was they, and not the new aristocracy, that socialism had in mind." — Nov 24, 2025 05:13PM
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"The same force that impelled the plebeian assault on the Bastille in 1789 drove the Mexican peasantry to capture the numerous Bastilles of the Porfirian haciendas. In the oral tradition of many peasant soldiers of the revolutionary armies, the revolution itself appeared as a series of hacienda seizures rather than an overthrow of the central state power." — Nov 11, 2025 06:50PM
"The same force that impelled the plebeian assault on the Bastille in 1789 drove the Mexican peasantry to capture the numerous Bastilles of the Porfirian haciendas. In the oral tradition of many peasant soldiers of the revolutionary armies, the revolution itself appeared as a series of hacienda seizures rather than an overthrow of the central state power." — Nov 11, 2025 06:50PM
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