Word: agrarian
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...dogma the notion that man is mere animal, condemned by nature to acquire the characteristics of his environment. Khrushchev tested the theory in his agrogorods. Just as the Soviet factories had produced a "new Soviet man" (e.g., Khrushchev), so he believed that the agrogorod environment would develop a new agrarian robot divorced from the muzhik's "old village backwardness...
When the armies of Mao Tse Tung first swept down from the north of China, there was a sentiment akin to satisfaction in many non-Communist, liberal circles. Favored among the terms describing the revolution were "agrarian reform" and "the real will of the Chinese people." Supposedly, the Chinese communists were fairly decent reformers who were completing China's fight against Japanese domination by ending the joint rule of Chaing Kai-Shek and corruption...
Guatemala's Communist-line Government swung its machete again last week, slicing 174,000 acres from the United Fruit Co.'s Atlantic Coast banana plantation for division among peasants under the new land-reform law. Earlier this year, the Agrarian Department had hacked away all but 66,000 acres of United Fruit's 300,000-acre Pacific Coast plantation (TIME, March 9). For the Atlantic Coast land, which the company values at $3,500,000, the government proposes to pay $570,000 in 25-year bonds...
Then the Communists shifted their attack to the government's agrarian reform program. Three months ago the government police tangled with Chinese peasant immigrants illegally squatting in North Sumatra. Six Chinese were killed. Red China's consul was on the spot within the hour. His protest led to a National Front vote of condemnation in the Indonesian Parliament last week. With half his party openly against him, Wilopo quit. Probable next step: a government which will include Communists...
Arbenz helped them take over the organized peasant movement, and they have repaid him with all-out support for his pet land-reform projects. When the Reds worked out a procedure for claiming United Fruit Co. property under the new agrarian law, he was delighted; in March the President formally upheld confiscation of 233,973 acres of the company's best reserve and fallow banana-growing lands. Now Red-led peasants are demanding 224,000 acres of the other big Unifruit plantation, and the company may eventually have to fold its $50 million Guatemalan operation...