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Russians’ cultural genome (DNA) evolved in a peasant milieu, in which property was held, and life lived, in common.
But the symbolism of Gandhi’s simple peasant clothing and lifestyle spoke louder than words.
China, after all, was a peasant society in 1978 when it began its own market reforms: 70% of the Chinese population lived in rural areas; only 18% worked in state enterprises.
Poland, by contrast, had strong civic groups – including the Church, peasant societies, and the Solidarity trade union.
The economy will have a simple structure in the coming years, with most economic activities focused in five sectors: smallholder, or peasant, agriculture; reconstruction; port services and light manufacturing; local small-scale trade; and public services, including health care and education.
First, special efforts should be made to boost peasant agriculture and rural communities.
The World Food Program can help peasant farmers to produce more food in the countryside and then purchase the food to use in food-for-work programs oriented to construction projects.
Apart from sharpening the “tools of the proletarian dictatorship” by strengthening the Peoples Liberation Army and the People’s Armed Police, they have created a labyrinthine “advance warning” system to monitor threats ranging from peasant riots, urban unrest, and bird flu to the influx of Western ideas through the Internet.
The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), led by the peasant leader Evo Morales, is proposing a state-led industrialization model based on gas revenues, part of which are also supposed to support small farming, petty traders, and artisans of all sorts.
Morales was born into a peasant household on the Andean altiplano and later established himself in Chapare at the beginning of the coca boom.
Just as Southeast Asia’s peasant rebellions of the 1930’s were a reaction to the breakdown of an earlier episode of globalization, so Islamism in Asia is a response to our new secularist/consumerist societies.
These so-called "wars" are part of the same conflict that prompted the peasant blockades of September 2000, the continuing protests by coca growers against efforts to eradicate their crops because of their role in the cocaine trade, and the withdrawal earlier this year of a progressive tax project.
According to Diamonds and Clubs, a recent report from Partnership Africa Canada, soldiers have press-ganged peasant farmers into working in mining syndicates at Marange.
Reports on peasant and worker demonstrations against corrupt officials and illegal property confiscations have been banned.
To help finance his communist movement in the 1930’s, Mao squeezed poor peasant families with any assets in the “Red” zone he controlled.
“How can we be expected to build the socialist economy,” asked a Ukrainian peasant, “when we are all doomed to hunger?”
Meanwhile, the Communists took whatever food they could find, as one peasant remembered, “down to the last little grain,” and in early 1933 the borders of Soviet Ukraine were sealed so that the starving could not seek help.
A peasant village raided a hospital dumpster to reclaim discarded surgical equipment, wash it in a nearby canal, re-package it in sealed plastic saying “sterilized,” and sell it back to the hospital at cut-rate prices.
Macron’s wife jokes that he takes himself for Joan of Arc, the French peasant who saved the country from the British in the Middle Ages.
Since Chinese is the language of instruction at Tibetan schools and universities, anyone who wishes to be more than a poor peasant, beggar, or seller of trinkets must conform to Chinese norms, that is, become Chinese.
Once again, Spain is proposing practical and innovative means to move from talk to action, specifically to help impoverished peasant farmers to get the tools, seeds, and fertilizer that they need to increase their farm productivity, incomes, and food security.
The European Union has launched a €1 billion effort to help peasant farmers.
They address a well-defined and serious challenge, for example low food production or a specific disease, and are based on a well-defined set of solutions, such as agricultural equipment and inputs needed by peasant farmers, or immunizations.
Russian aristocrats used to sell whole villages and estates, including their peasant serfs, as if the latter were inanimate objects, not human beings.
He was a man of charm and determination – known to his friends for being obstinate, “like a peasant determined to sell a cow,” but an inspirational figure for those who worked for him.
The drivers of both the tractor and the metallic-silver luxury car were 45-year-old women, but any similarity between them ended there: the former was a peasant, the latter the wife of a wealthy businessman.
After a confrontation between the two, the wealthy wife drove her BMW into the growing crowd of spectators on the roadside, killing the peasant woman and injuring 12 others.
The apathetic response of the dead peasant woman's husband to the $10,000 in compensation he received was telling.
Designed as a local symbol of mourning, these poles, with their sharply angled roofs, remind viewers either of a peasant cross or a human figure with hands raised in prayer.
The Chinese myth of success was the bright peasant boy whose village clubbed together to educate him and whose subsequent success resulted in the elevation of all who had helped him on his way into the civil service.
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