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	"'''"The Narodniks''' appear in Haz ~~Al-Din~~'s theory of '''the student as seismograph''' ~~— the social stratum that feels historical tremors first~~.		'''The Narodniks''' appear in Haz's theory of '''the student as seismograph'''.

	== From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/82ab4dfc-cf41-482d-9faa-e205dd43cd22/ RED PILL NEWS \| IRAN-ISRAEL WAR? stream] ==		== From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/82ab4dfc-cf41-482d-9faa-e205dd43cd22/ RED PILL NEWS \| IRAN-ISRAEL WAR? stream] ==
	~~Discussing~~ Iran's internal tremors:		On Iran's internal tremors:

	> "In Russia, same thing with the Narodniks. Narodism arose because they felt a tremor — there's a social implosion about to happen with the rise of Russian peasant subjectivity. It's always the students that feel the tremor first, because they're at the center... And always the response by students takes the form of the negation of the authorities of the institutions they themselves are based at. ~~If you're a~~ Russian Narodnik~~, you stand~~ against the Russian university authorities~~. If you're in~~ Tehran, same ~~thing~~ with the universities under the Shah~~. And in~~ China, same ~~thing of~~ the universities in Beijing."		> "In Russia, same thing with the Narodniks. Narodism arose because they felt a tremor — there's a social implosion about to happen with the rise of Russian peasant subjectivity. It's always the students that feel the tremor first, because they're at the center... And always the response by students takes the form of the negation of the authorities of the institutions they themselves are based at. Russian Narodnik against the Russian university authorities; Tehran, same with the universities under the Shah; China, same with the universities in Beijing."

	== The theory ==		== The theory ==
	* Student radicalism is not a cause ~~but a '''symptom'''~~: students sit at the nerve-center where subterranean social shifts register first ~~(Russian peasant subjectivity; Iranian countryside; China)~~.		Student radicalism is a symptom, not a cause: students sit at the nerve-center where subterranean social shifts register first. The form is pure negation of one's own institution — which explains both its energy and its limits. Negation needs content from the real social movement rising beneath it ([[Class]], [[MAGA Communism]]).
	* The form is pure negation of one's own institution — which explains both its energy and its limits~~: negation must be given~~ content by the real social movement rising beneath it ([[Class]], [[MAGA Communism]]).

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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	~~The~~ '''Narodniks''' ~~(Russian: народники, "populists") were 19th~~-~~century Russian revolutionaries who believed socialism would arise from~~ the ~~peasant commune (obshchina) rather than capitalist development~~ — ~~Russia could skip capitalism and leap to socialism on~~ the ~~basis of agrarian collectivism~~.		"'''"The Narodniks''' appear in Haz Al-Din's theory of '''the student as seismograph''' — the social stratum that feels historical tremors first.

	== ~~History ==~~		== From the [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/82ab4dfc-cf41-482d-9faa-e205dd43cd22/ RED PILL NEWS \| IRAN-ISRAEL WAR? stream] ==
	* 1860s-~~70s: theorists like Herzen, Chernyshevsky, Lavrov argued the commune made Russia uniquely predisposed to socialism~~.		Discussing Iran's internal tremors:
	* The "Going to the People" movement (1874): thousands of students went to villages to propagandize — largely rebuffed by peasants, many arrested.
	* Radicalization produced Zemlya i Volya (Land and Liberty) and its split into Narodnaya Volya (People's ~~Will — terrorist wing, assassinated Alexander II, 1881) and Black Repartition.~~
	* By the 1880s-90s the movement was in crisis: ~~capitalism had taken root. Plekhanov's ''Socialism and the Political Struggle'' (1883) founded Russian Marxism against Narodism.~~

	~~== Legacy ==~~		> "In Russia, same thing with the Narodniks. Narodism arose because they felt a tremor — there's a social implosion about to happen with the rise of Russian peasant subjectivity. It's always the students that feel the tremor first, because they're at the center... And always the response by students takes the form of the negation of the authorities of the institutions they themselves are based at. If you're a Russian Narodnik, you stand against the Russian university authorities. If you're in Tehran, same thing with the universities under the Shah. And in China, same thing of the universities in Beijing."
	~~Lenin~~'s ~~early work (~~''~~The Development~~ of ~~Capitalism in Russia~~'', ~~''What~~ the ~~"Friends~~ of the ~~People~~" ~~Are~~'') ~~polemicized against late Narodism while acknowledging its revolutionary sincerity~~. The ~~debate~~ — ~~can a backward country skip stages? — prefigured later questions of uneven development,~~ the [[~~Asiatic Mode of Production\|Asiatic mode~~]], ~~and Third World revolutionary theory~~.
			== The theory ==
			* Student radicalism is not a cause but a '''symptom''': students sit at the nerve-center where subterranean social shifts register first (Russian peasant subjectivity; Iranian countryside; China).
			* The form is pure negation of one's own institution — which explains both its energy and its limits: negation must be given content by the real social movement rising beneath it ([[Class]], [[MAGA Communism]]).

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[~~The Asiatic Mode of Production]]~~		* [[Labor Aristocracy]]
	* [[Vladimir Lenin]]

	== References ==		== References ==
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The '''Narodniks''' (Russian: народники, "populists") were 19th-century Russian revolutionaries who believed socialism would arise from the peasant commune (obshchina) rather than capitalist development — Russia could skip capitalism and leap to socialism on the basis of agrarian collectivism.

== History ==
* 1860s-70s: theorists like Herzen, Chernyshevsky, Lavrov argued the commune made Russia uniquely predisposed to socialism.
* The "Going to the People" movement (1874): thousands of students went to villages to propagandize — largely rebuffed by peasants, many arrested.
* Radicalization produced Zemlya i Volya (Land and Liberty) and its split into Narodnaya Volya (People's Will — terrorist wing, assassinated Alexander II, 1881) and Black Repartition.
* By the 1880s-90s the movement was in crisis: capitalism had taken root. Plekhanov's ''Socialism and the Political Struggle'' (1883) founded Russian Marxism against Narodism.

== Legacy ==
Lenin's early work (''The Development of Capitalism in Russia'', ''What the "Friends of the People" Are'') polemicized against late Narodism while acknowledging its revolutionary sincerity. The debate — can a backward country skip stages? — prefigured later questions of uneven development, the [[Asiatic Mode of Production|Asiatic mode]], and Third World revolutionary theory.

== See also ==
* [[The Asiatic Mode of Production]]
* [[Vladimir Lenin]]

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Russia]][[Category:History]][[Category:Political theory]]