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That's what I'm saying about it being virtually impossible, by definition, to raise a class of people into power. What would it even look like for the proletariat to be in power? This was the promise of the Russian Revolution, but instead, what happened was that a small group of elites (the Communist Party Central Committee) was formed to do the actual governing, and then the proletariat remained the proletariat.

There are certainly examples of individual sharecroppers who attained power as a result of revolution, eg. William Few. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Few



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