Word: landless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social system, as he sees it, is basically sound. In fact, it is often the system itself which is the problem. Excessive population growth is not a metaphysical condition, it is a social sickness which has stricken countries ravaged by colonialism, or which ignore extreme internal inequalities. A landless laborer in Indonesia would be crazy not to have all the children he could: he gets paid by the hand. Trying to institute "reforms" such as literacy to lower fertility without removing the social causes of high fertility rates is like trying to lower casualty rates without stopping a war. Like...
...group of Chilean leftists recently chose an improbable phrase to inform the rest of the world that they intend to remain in Chile and fight the military dictatorship instead of seeking asylum abroad. The Miristas, a Chilean New Left of students who left the universities to work with landless peasants and urban workers, said only that they would remain in Chile "to fulfill our obligations." They consciously chose a future of furtive meetings and constant fear which for some of them will surely culminate in electric-shock tortures and machine-gun executions...
...inequities. Much of the land was owned communally, by the village; the proceeds from it were used to help the poorer peasants pay their taxes, to finance schools and pay teachers, to provide for widows and orphans. There were as yet no classes of wealthy landlords and of landless rural poor. Except during infrequent periods of natural disaster, on one went hungry in rural Vietnam...
...French land policy transformed the character of life in the countryside, creating a tiny elite of largely absentee owners--who controlled wide tracts of land--and a huge class of landless tenants. An 1839 Nguyen decree had limited the size of an individual's landholdings; under the French some landlords owned up to 150 times this limit. Every peasant in traditional Vietnam had been guaranteed his share of land; under French rule over half the peasants became landless and many of the rest owned plots so small that they had to rent more from the landlord...
Popular Unity traveled smoothly at first. Although the opposition vetoed all important legislation except for the nationalization, Allende found enough loopholes and unenforced old laws to make great advances in all areas. Workers' councils were set up in factories, landless peasants met to divide up expropriated estates, poor children drank milk for the first time and their older brothers and sisters began to attend universities...