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Lenin had adapted Marx's vision of how communism would develop to fit the Russian situation adn Mao did the same to Leninism.

Marx distrusted the peasantry, thinking them as inherently conservative.

Because Russia was still a largely rural, peasant based economy in 1917 Lenin said that the Workers would ally with the peasants - and guide them towards a revolutionary communist class consciousness.

Mao further adapted this idea, as China had not industrialised at all when he was formulating his ideas. Mao turned Marxism on its head, claiming that the peasants could be the driving force behind the revolution. He claimed that as the peasants worked for landowners and engaged in capitalist activities at the markets - then they were, in effect, a rural revolutionary class.

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