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In the history of Marxism, theoretical formulations and praxis on the peasant question have been constantly in the flux. Marx s unambiguous and critical writings on peasantry and the contradictory prevalent social conditions have splitted the Marxists in two theoretically hostile camps. In one camp were Marx-Engels, Plekhanov and Rosa Luxemburg who did not compromise with peasants programmes; in another camp were E. Bernstein, K. Kautsky, Lenin and Mao who implemented their programmes. Lenin s success in Russia became the primer of the Communist parties on the peasant question, and relegated Marx s praxis into oblivion. This book resurrects Marx s peasant formulations, in the context of globalisation, in contradistinction to Lenin s-Mao s praxis.