Concept
Peasant
Overview
member of a traditional class of farmers
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In the Russian peasantry as it entered the Soviet order there were three elements: the poor, living to a considerable extent by the sale of their labor-power, and forced to buy additional food for their requirements; the middle peasants, whose requirements were covered by the products of their farms, and who were able to a limited extent to sell their surplus; and the upper layer--_i.e._, the rich peasants, the…
Leon Trotsky, Dictatorship vs. Democracy
The chapter “THE PEASANT POLICY” is titled for Peasant; names Peasant several times.
The transition to full private property was accomplished gradually and simultaneously with the transition from the pairing family to monogamy. The monogamous family began to be the economic unit of society.
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Close in meaning to Peasant; the term itself is not named.
These changes will be taken by the proletariat as a starting point for further legislative measures in agriculture. Under such conditions, the Russian peasantry will be interested in upholding the proletarian rule ("labor democracy"), at least in the first, most difficult period, not less so than were the French peasants interested in upholding the military rule of Napoleon Bonaparte who by force guaranteed to the…
Leon Trotsky, Our Revolution
Names Peasant several times; opens on Peasant.
Philosophers who discussed Peasant
Related ideas
- Feudalism
- Annales school
- Industrial Revolution
- Neologism
- Karl Marx
- Literacy
- Middle Ages
- Mao Zedong
- Manorialism
- French Third Republic
- Slavery
- Fernand Braudel
- Age of Enlightenment
- Proletariat
- Black Death
- Anthropology
- Florian Znaniecki
- Agency (sociology)
Place in the tradition
Part of Political philosophy.