ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the peasant problem, the question how the workers in their struggle for power are to secure the support of the peasantry, is a subsidiary one. Even so, though subsidiary, the peasant problem is of vital importance to the proletarian revolution. It was on the eve of the revolution of 1905 that Russian Marxists began to pay serious heed to the peasant problem. In the sense, the peasant problem is part of the general question of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and as such it constitutes one of the most vital elements of Leninism. Really, there is no trace of Marxism in such an attitude, for, on the eve of the proletarian revolution, indifference to so important a problem as the peasant problem is tantamount to the repudiation of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and is an open betrayal of Marxism.
