Word: agrarian
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This is landscape as seen by those who cannot escape, who must work on it. Such people were not rococo milkmaids. They were the rural lumpen proletariat, the rooted, shapeless mass brutalized by the agrarian disasters of the '40s and '50s. Millet was the first artist to make peasants a subject instead of an accessory. His paintings are an encyclopedia of work: digging, hoeing, planting potatoes, spreading manure...
...understanding the contrast between Angolan chaos and Mozambican stability lies in the divergent pattern of Portuguese colonization in the two countries. In Mozambique Portuguese economic penetration was restricted to the coastal cites, leaving the agrarian interior relatively untouched. Frelimo was therefore able to mobilize the entire peasantry against Portuguese rule, creating alternative political institutions during the colonial war itself. So when independence came, Frelimo already controlled most of the population and was ready to take power immediately with a coherent plan for socialist development. Angola, on the other hand, is among the most industrialized countries in black Africa, so that...
...going in a good direction. The left in Portugal is unhappy. They believe the government is too far to the right. And it is necessary to do something about this because the government is not of the right. I intend to convince them with action. On subjects like agrarian reform, I am quite sure that just talking is the wrong way to resolve things. Action is the only...
...building an independent, self-sufficient national economy for Cambodia. And the United Front's program calls for the nationalization of banks and foreign trade, eliminating the two worst problems in Cambodia's recent history: foreign economic exploitation and widespread usury. And most important of all, in the mainly rural agrarian Cambodian society, the United Front guarantees the right for all peasants to own the land they cultivate...
...onset of a post-industrial society. Perhaps the most portentous change, however, is the relative decline of manufacturing and the rise of a service economy. Just as a century ago, one began to see the change from an agrarian to an industrial society, so one can now see the lineaments of a post-industrial society. Today in the U.S., 64 out of every 100 people are engaged in services; by 1980 about 70 out of every 100 will be employed in that sector. And these are new kinds of service, not those characteristic of an agrarian society (largely household servants...