A Study On The Thought Of Safeguarding The Interests Of Peasants In Friedrich Engels’s The Peasant Issue In Franco-German

China has always been a large agricultural country,with a large number of farmers,whose interests are related to social stability and development.Engels is not only a great proletarian revolutionist,but also attaches great importance to the interests of farmers.Many works contain rich ideas of farmers’ interests.This paper combs the relevant works of Marx and Engels’ Thoughts on the interests of farmers,sums up their core ideas of safeguarding the interests of farmers,and strives to draw lessons from the development of contemporary agricultural economy.In this paper,Engels in his later years of writing "The Peasant Issue in Franco-German" as a starting point,introduced Engels’ thought of farmers’ interests.This paper is divided into four parts.First of all,it expounds the background of "The Peasant Issue in Franco-German",and introduces the impact of capitalist economy,overseas trade and revolutionary war on the interests of farmers in the 18 th and 19 th century.Through combing the relevant texts of Marx and Engels before the "The Peasant Issue in Franco-German",this paper expounds the formation process of the farmer’s interest thought from germination,gradual formation to development and maturity.Secondly,it discusses the main contents of Engels’ s thought of peasants’ interests,classifies peasants into middle peasants,large peasants,agricultural workers,small peasants and tenant peasants,and treats different types of peasants correctly.It expounds that the reasons for safeguarding peasants’ interests are to strengthen the ranks of the proletariat,to win the victory of the proletariat revolution,to carry out socialist transformation and to develop the productive forces.It also discusses that we should be firm in safeguarding peasants’ interests We should adhere to the principles of respecting the will of farmers,national assistance,publicity and education,and typical demonstration;we should develop agricultural cooperatives and large-scale operation,improve farmers’ income,and further safeguard farmers’ interests.Then,it puts forward that the "The Peasant Issue in Franco-German" is the representative work of Engels’ farmer interest thought,which has important theoretical value in the development process of Marx and Engels’ farmer interest thought.Through the criticism of Nantes’ program,it further deepens the thought of opposing the private ownership of land,opposing the employment of labor,making policies according to the actual situation of rural areas,etc.to protect the interests of farmers.Meanwhile,it is the representative work of Engels’ farmer interest thought The idea of strengthening the attention to the interests of small farmers and describing agricultural cooperatives in detail in "people’s issues" is a further development of Marx and Engels’ Thoughts on the interests of farmers.Finally,this paper discusses the Enlightenment of Engels’ thought of farmers’ interests on the development of China’s agricultural economy and the improvement of farmers’ economic interests.It is pointed out that in the construction of agricultural modernization,we should put the land problem in the first place,implement the land contract system,develop the economy in the way of agricultural production cooperatives,adhere to the dominant position of farmers,respect the pioneering spirit of farmers,carry out national assistance according to the actual situation of farmers,and strive to maintain and develop the interests of farmers.