In contrast, the Marxists believed that the peasant class' primary motivation was to own their land, and that they were capitalists; instead, they saw the proletariat as the revolutionary force to advance socialism.
Pola contra, os marxistas crían que a motivación principal da clase campesiña era ser dono da súa propia terra, e que eran por tanto capitalistas, non socialistas; en cambio, viron o proletariado como a forza revolucionaria que traería o socialismo.