Word: agrarianism
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...railway-repair shops and an assortment of small machine and textile producers. Ho's major asset was coal, and its continuing abundance has provided North Viet Nam with badly needed foreign exchange. Clearly, intensive efforts were needed in the agricultural sector. Ho's first major program, accordingly, was agrarian reform, and his first mass target was the "exploiting landlords." There were, in fact, few landlords of any size. Nevertheless, the order rumbled down from Hanoi: find the exploiters and execute them. Anywhere from 50,000 to 200,000 Vietnamese were executed?mostly village leaders who were replaced by heretofore landless...
...Oran, Algeria--the home of Albert Camus--where his parents emigrated from Germany in the early thirties to escape the Nazis. In 1949, when his father is still employed as a building superintendent. An immigrant living in New York City, Flym fell for some sort of Jeffersonian agrarian vision--he decided he wanted to be a dairy farmer. "I found the concept of a farmer's life appealing," he says...
...Alianza funds that Lyndon Johnson had requested from $625 million to a disappointing $336.5 million, and Nixon has publicly criticized the program's performance. At each stop, Latin leaders recited the litany of the region's social problems from illiteracy and overpopulation to the need for agrarian reform...
...occasionally a book appears which chronicles for an illiterate people what they could not record themselves. With great pain and diligence and scholarship John Womack Jr. has wrested the story of the agrarian revolution captained by Emiliano Zapata from the reports of the literate and the educated, and has managed to give their history back to the people...
Although Womack holds very tight reins on his subjects matter, for me his book is suggestive of certain principles concerning the nature of any agrarian revolt. He offers an understanding of the nature of a populist leader and what the goals and limits of a populist uprising...