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Poles, who lost nearly all their patriotic ideas over the past decade, now seem poised to rediscover their national identity solely on a negative basis forged by our peasants.
Verdi at least offered his peasants that illusion.
I do not intend to praise communism, but before the Second World War 20% of university students were the offspring of peasants; now we have barely 1%.
Sometimes, such as when violence was recently used to quell South Chinese peasants protesting official land grabs, the CCP still shows its willingness to use “boot-on-the-face” suppression.
Kwasniewski’s strategy of seduction appealed to large numbers of the young and the middle class but most of all to peasants, the unemployed, those left behind by Poland's growing economy.
The law provides reparation for the victims of human-rights violations in the course of a 60-year conflict, as well as restitution of millions of hectares stolen from peasants.
In this case, returning land to dispossessed peasants and offering financial reparation to the victims and those who were displaced by the conflict became the way to peace.
The only chance to end cotton subsidies is now somehow to convince US and EU leaders to assist African peasants by curtailing payments to their own cotton farmers.
As South Korean and Taiwanese peasants became factory workers, the economies of both countries – and, with a lag, their politics – were transformed.
China grew by building factories and filling them with peasants who had little education, which generated an instant boost in productivity.
In 1917, more than 80% of Russia’s population were peasants.
We can use mobile phones and speculate on international financial markets, but we should also live as peasants supposedly do.
There is a disturbing rationale for this myopic focus on peasants and forest people and for the prominence of this approach on the agendas of international agencies and climate negotiators.
The Bank argued that the “equity principle” that guides normal development activities could not be ignored in order to give preference to a few when there were 300,000 peasants without land in El Salvador.
But the immigrants have been mostly poor peasants from Anatolia, whose integration has proven to be difficult.
Pundits scorn the theory, which says that the Communist party should not only represent workers and peasants but also society's "advanced productive forces, culture and interests," and they deem it wholly inadequate to China's mounting problems of inequality, corruption, and lack of democracy.
Polish peasants despise the Union for the same reasons French peasants fear it: that the EU will force farmers to change their ways.
(There is, undoubtedly, a bit of rank hypocrisy in this as, over the years, no group has picked the Union’s pockets more than French peasants).
But for China's peasants, WTO membership appears to pose a direct and immediate threat to the tremendous gains made since Deng Xiaoping's agricultural reforms in the late 1970s.
The fear felt by China's peasants is understandable because it is deeply rooted in China's history and politics.
During China's civil war in the late 1940s, the promise of land reform attracted tens of millions of landless peasants to support the Communists.
But despite owning the means of production such as land and tools, Chinese peasants have not achieved the social and political status accorded industrial workers in state-owned sectors - people who, according to the constitution, remain the official "vanguard" class.
Today, peasants move to seek new and better employment opportunities created by economic liberalization.
Guilty of excessive hubris, their ability to empathize with the peasants and the urban poor is matched only by their disregard for the urban middle class and its members’ demand for clean government and rule of law rather than populism.
The fate of peasants has a direct and important impact on that of kings.
Poor peasants use their own seeds from the preceding season, lack fertilizer, depend on rain rather than irrigation, and have little if any mechanization beyond a traditional hoe.
When peasants lack their own saving accounts and collateral, they are unable to borrow from banks to buy seeds, fertilizer, and irrigation.
Migration to a city will be the only choice for many dispossessed peasants.
Already, township elections are widely welcomed as a mechanism to stamp out rampant political corruption, as well as reduce conflicts between peasants and the government.
Together, these 1.2 million Red Army soldiers, the workers who armed them, and the peasants who fed them turned the Battle of Stalingrad into the fight that, of any battle in human history, has made the greatest positive difference for humanity.
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