Zemljani put revolucije. Seljačko pitanje u Engelsovim kasnim radovima
The Revolution through Soil. The Question of Peasantry in Engels’ Later Works

Author(s): Bojan Vranić
Subject(s): Agriculture, Political history, Social history, 19th Century Philosophy, Marxism, Politics and society, Culture and social structure , Rural and urban sociology, 19th Century, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Durieux
Keywords: Engels; property; culture; the question of peasantry; revolution; representation;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the peasant question in the socialist thought of the second half 19th century, with special reference to the work of Friedrich Engels. In the classic socialist literature, the peasant question has long been marked as a marginal question of property, as can best be seen from Marx’s analysis in Louis Bonaparte’s Eighteenth Brimer. Almost half a century later, Engels approaches the peasant question from another angle, considering the problem of small peasants as a cultural, not just an economic problem. The paper will show that Engels’ analysis of the peasant question opened new avenues for socialist theory, which leads to a revision of the classical doctrine of the proletarian revolution and suggests an evolutionary path of social change.

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