I don’t wanna die lol

      • not to antagonize, but i really don’t know if revolutionaries would just buy it if a bougie/petit bougie just tells them “wait! don’t shoot! i like mao/lenin/marx/engel!”, i feel like they might put them into some kind of test (for example asking what mao/lenin/marx/engels’ viewpoints on certain things are) first to see if the bougie/petit bougie in question is being genuine.

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          Absolutely, I meant you have to do what they did: serve the people and it doesn’t matter where you started.

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          It depends what you do before things reach that point. Fidel was extremely wealthy and his family profited heavily off of the Batista regime with massive sugar plantations. However, no one ever accused Fidel of being a bourgeoisie threat, because the very first act of Fidel’s during the revolution was to collectivize and nationalize all of his family’s assets and farms.

          He became a class traitor (In the good way).

          You can too. Even if you are petite, then supporting the revolution is all that you really need to do.

          • However, no one ever accused Fidel of being a bourgeoisie threat, because the very first act of Fidel’s during the revolution was to collectivize and nationalize all of his family’s assets and farms.

            ok, but how did he do this? i don’t imagine it was as easy as it sounds.

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              “Hey guys, now that the revolution has succeeded here is my program to nationalize all of the sugar industries in Cuba. To show that I am serious and have no biases, I will nationalize all of my personal and family farms and assets first; they belong to the people not myself.”

              That was pretty much it.

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      Khrushchev once spoke to Zhou Enlai. Khrushchev says A big difference between the USSR and PRC is that I rose to power from a proletarian family, meanwhile you ascended to power from the privileged Mandarin class of China. Zhou Enlai replied that they have a striking similarity, that they are both traitors to their class. Where you come from means less than where you stand on the issue of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Zhou Enlai was not harmed by the PRC for his family’s wealth, he was welcomed with open arms as a friend of the Proletarian Revolution.

      • Zhou Enlai was not harmed by the PRC for his family’s wealth, he was welcomed with open arms as a friend of the Proletarian Revolution.

        that’s great, but what did he do that managed to convince the peoples’ revolutionary army that he’s an ally, despite coming from bougies?

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          I can look more into it later but I read that he got into anti-Japanese intellectual groups and organizations during the time of their occupation. During this time he became a connection between the Communist Party and the rest of the outside world for collecting information, communication with other anti-Japan organizations, etc.