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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat.
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But the peasantry as a whole remained in a condition of extreme economic weakness.
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But the commercial success paradoxically impoverished the peasantry .
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Even more important was the peasantry .
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Social change, therefore, was unlikely to come from the top and the peasantry were badly educated and impoverished smallholders.
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The peasantry still had virtually no rights whatsoever.
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The commitment to the commune, as the best means of taxing and policing the peasantry , was repeatedly reaffirmed.
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This argument puts forward the notion that the peasantry working in these conditions would provide revolutionary potential.