Agrarian Socialism - Agrarian Communism

Agrarian Communism

The 17th Century movement called the Diggers based their ideas on agrarian communism.

Certain forms of more modern communism have been more agrarian than industrial. For example, Mao Zedong's view that the peasantry could be tapped as a revolutionary force in modern society (a major aspect of Maoist theory). However, Mao always saw his theoretical developments as extensions of Marxism-Leninism and they were grounded in the fundamental Marxist idea that development of the productive forces predisposes Communism.