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The soldiers of the Red Army, and the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union who armed and fed them, allowed their dictatorial masters to commit crimes – and committed crimes themselves.
The farmers, the peasants in Tahrir Square, were aware of their rights.”
In the 1760s, when Corsicans asked Rousseau for advice on writing a constitution, he counseled that they should remain peasants.
The revolutionary party of peasants and workers is now dominated by businessmen, college students, and professionals.
These migrants exist with no job security, no long-term housing, and no health care;800 million rural peasants have been largely left out of China's latest boom, creating rising, but frustrated, expectations;China has no functioning pension system, and the cost of creating one is estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars;New stock markets are all too often little more than elite-manipulated casinos, leaving China without the capacity to form the kind of indigenous pools of investment capital needed to power its own development;State banks must provide 98% of all financing for local companies.
What would the government rely on for legitimacy if unemployed workers begin agitating; if angry peasants begin to besiege local government office in large numbers; if factionalism incites a crisis in leadership; conflict erupts in the Taiwan Straits; or the global economy remains sluggish?
If Romania's peasants come to believe that the EU insists that they hug their pigs, not butcher them with knives, their fidelity towards the social democrats will wither.
Fortunately, there seems to be a way to conciliate both EU bureaucrats and even our most diehard peasants.
This dynamic arrangement – which continued until the French Revolution, when peasants gained full property rights – looks a lot like consumers’ relationships with Internet firms today.
This approach is proven to work: small-scale farmers, peasants, fishers, indigenous communities, rural workers, women, and youth already feed 70% of the world’s population, while using only 25% of its agricultural resources.
Throughout the developing world, poor peasants involved in producing opium, coca and cannabis are arrested, sometimes beaten, and often extorted by government agents enforcing drug laws.
To succeed, the transition must be just and ensure the rights of workers, peasants, women, migrants, and indigenous peoples.
For example, La Via Campesina – an international movement comprising peasants, smallholder farmers, agricultural workers, rural women and youth, indigenous people, and others – has shown how peasant agriculture and agroecology can cool the planet, feed its inhabitants, nurture its soil, support its forests, safeguard seed diversity, and protect water basins.
It was they, not the fellahin (peasants) of the Nile Valley and Delta, who brought down Mubarak.
But those gains went to urban elites in the West and to rural peasants in China and India.
Brought together by a network of more than 200 organizations from across India, the farmers, mostly peasants of modest means, clamored for a familiar set of demands: debt relief and payment of MSPs for their produce.
Peasants toiled in the lord’s fields, and distribution followed the harvest, with the sheriff collecting the lord’s share.
In the case of Soviet collectivization, state authoritarianism originated from the self-proclaimed “leading role” of the Communist Party, and pursued its schemes in the absence of any organizations that could effectively resist them or provide protection to peasants crushed by them.
She takes no interest in our work, in the farm, in the peasants, or in music, though she is quite good at that, or in books.
And it should have been like this...''Mind, here are some peasants coming...''They didn't see!'CHAPTER VIDURING THE CHILDREN'S TEA the grown-ups sat on the balcony and talked as if nothing had happened, though they all, especially Koznyshev and Varenka, knew very well that something had happened which though negative was highly important.
Having traversed more than half the marsh, Levin and Veslovsky came to a spot where the peasants' meadow land was divided into long strips, the ends abutting on the sedge and separated by narrow lines where the grass had been trodden down or cut.
'Hullo you sportsmen!' shouted one of several peasants who were sitting beside a cart from which the horses had been taken out.
Go, you'll find the way to the mill!' cried Levin, and on looking round was pleased to see Veslovsky making his way out of the marsh toward the peasants, stooping and stumbling with his weary feet and holding his gun at arm's length.
A propos of Vasenka's repeated expressions of delight at the charm of the arrangements for the night, of the scent of hay, and of a broken cart (which he thought was broken, because its fore wheels had been removed), of the good-nature of the peasants who had treated him to vodka, and of the dogs which lay each at its master's feet, Oblonsky told them about the delights of a shooting party with Malthus at which he had been last summer.
When he had passed the sleeping peasants and reached the first wet place, Levin examined his percussion caps and allowed Laska to go.
Veslovsky now sang, now recalled with relish his adventures with the peasants who entertained him with vodka and said 'No offence!'; and now his night exploits with hazel nuts, the maid-servant, and the peasant who asked him whether he was married, and learning that he was not said: 'Don't hanker after other men's wives, but above all things strive to get one of your own!'These words particularly amused Veslovsky.
CHAPTER XVIITHE COACHMAN STOPPED THE HORSES and looked round toward a field of rye on the right, where some peasants sat beside a cart.
The coachman started, but hardly had they gone round the corner when the peasants called out to them.
The peasants beside the cart all got up and looked with merry curiosity at the visitor, making their own comments.
The peasants asked him to let them some meadows at a reduced rent, I think, and he refused, and I reproached him with being stingy.
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