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This marvellous film neatly sets up a position - that the Swiss Tyrol is the traditional pleasant place of thigh slapping, jolly peasants and picturesque vies.
He gives the portrait of the peasants and of their life in Colcatta in a persuasive way, but his story is full of unnecessary melodrama, as all life's misfortunes seem to have conspired in order to fall on Shambhu's head.
The cast seems to be assembled from actual monks & country peasants but the naturalistic approach produces a result that looks entirely unnatural, with all the characters looking desperate to get their designated line into the dialogue.
On the contrary, the initial benefits that peasants gained from the rural reforms of the late 1970's and early 1980's have disappeared; real income among farmers has dropped in recent years as their production costs rise and agricultural prices decline.
More than 300 taxes and fees have been imposed on peasants by all levels of government.
Such an unfair distribution of wealth based on economic exploitation, social injustice and political exclusion has caused silent but persistent resistance by Chinese peasants.
On the other hand, Tolstoy justified the unrestrained and unregulated eruption of public anger and the furious slaying of retreating French soldiers by Russian peasants.
The law was a watershed, because it simultaneously pacified violent regions, delivered justice for millions of dispossessed peasants, radically improved standards of living, and blunted the appeal of a guerrilla group that used the banner of land reform to justify its untold atrocities.
Similarly, landless peasants are both an economic and a social problem, and the current administration has taken on vested interests to push forward on an exciting market-based land reform, one which has received support from the World Bank.
Peasants in Warangal used to grow millets, pulses, and oilseeds.
Small peasants without capital were trapped in a vicious cycle of debt.
Nor are the peasants so ignorant to be easily conned by a crafty politician promising much delivering little or none.
Facing the sharp end of the stick are the seven million Niger delta peasants, who bear the brunt of the violence, environmental devastation, and social anarchy that Big Oil produces wherever it sets up its drilling rigs.
In Latin America, the gap between large landowners and small peasants is widening.
On June 15, an attempt to evict farmers from a disputed piece of land turned violent, resulting in the death of 11 peasants and six policemen.
Among the largest of these politically excluded groups are landless peasants, who demand land reform and rural development policies.
Peasants could be transformed into factory workers virtually overnight, implying significant productivity gains for the economy.
A technologically stagnant agricultural society is bound to be an extremely unequal one: by force and fraud, the upper class push the peasants’ standards of living down to subsistence and take the surplus as the rent on the land they control.
The high rents paid to noble landlords increase their wealth and power by giving them the resources to keep the peasants down and widen the surplus – for, after all, they cannot make more land.
Lenin described Kerensky as the “balalaika” played by the old order to continue to deceive the workers and peasants.
The effect is to require that those who were in charge answer for the forced disappearances in Araguaia of 70 peasants in an anti-guerrilla campaign.
In any case, the majority of peasants belonging to any caste, upper or lower, were poor.
At a deeper level, the Brexit vote can be seen as part of a transatlantic peasants’ revolt, making itself felt in France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Austria, and of course the United States.
Hu’s Politburo has consistently refused to let peasants set up non-official farmers’ associations or trade unions.
His career as a union leader took him away from agriculture and into politics, where he stood out for his criticism of the United States, whose anti-drug crusade meant the eradication of a cash crop for poor peasants.
These illicit activities are not intended, but they increase the income of peasants, transporters, builders, and businessmen.
These resources feed armed insurgents, criminal bands and, increasingly, provide the lifeblood for many small peasants, who cultivate some 130 thousand hectares of coca plants.
The increasingly impoverished lives of peasants that the book vividly documented resulted from the very abuses of power that Hu Jintao had declared himself to be against.
By depriving peasants of their land and making them de facto state employees, collective farming allowed Moscow to control people as well as their produce.
The reasons were many: poor weather, pests, shortages of animal power after peasants slaughtered livestock rather than losing it to the collective, shortages of tractors, the shooting and deportation of the best farmers, and the disruption of sowing and reaping caused by collectivization itself.
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