Word: agrarianism
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...chief limits upon early 19th century expansionism were economic; not until the 1840s could the United Stated be considered industrial. Inevitably, the construction of direct economic links between North and West with new developments in railroads and communication disrupted the delicate balance between the industrial North and the agrarian South and West which had held the early Union together...
Once in office, Allende moved swiftly to change the economic face of the country. His Christian Democratic predecessor, Eduardo Frei, had already introduced agrarian reforms and pushed government participation in industry. But Allende inaugurated a far more sweeping program of government ownership and operation, beginning with total ownership of the giant copper operations, whose U.S. owners had been woefully slow in training Chileans for more important, better paying jobs. Cement, steel, electricity and telephones were also nationalized, along with both foreign and domestic banks. Labor unions were given control of new plants that went up in belts around Santiago, close...
...begin, the Frei years were hardly halcyon times of peace and social justice. Frei snuck past Allende in the 1964 election with strong conservative and CIA support, and he was always beholden to the right. As a consequence, his rhetoric outstripped reality: his touted agrarian reforms did little to change the shape of the Chilean landscape and he never got around to nationalizing the copper interests and other North American businesses as he promised...
...those who had never liked Perón, the grievances intensified after he overwhelmingly won a second term as President in 1951. Concern rose over his failure to press for agrarian reform, his purging of liberals and personal opponents from the courts and universities, his clamping of rigid censorship on the press, his throttling-through firing, jailing and other persecution-of all dissent. Perón angered the Roman Catholic Church by ending religious instruction in the schools, initiating a divorce law and taking steps to legalize bordellos. In addition, reports circulated about Perón keeping a 14-year...
Hamilton became angry. "The people, the people, the people!" he said. "Without the Government, the people are a myth invented by you and Tom Paine as a basis for your foolish notions of an agrarian democracy. The myth became horrifying reality in Paris in 1789. You approved that Revolution, Tom, and I guess you must have approved its ideological successor in Russia...