Peasant movement
The peasant movements in modern times are social or political movements of the rural population for social reforms. The peasant movement was mostly concerned with land reforms , making it part of the land reform movement . The peasant movement was particularly popular in places where land ownership was unevenly (“unjust”) distributed or where the peasant population made up a large proportion of the population. In the peasant movement, a distinction must be made between the actual political peasant movement (cf. peasant party ) and the other social endeavors aimed at improving peasant living conditions.
The largest association of peasant movements currently in existence is Via Campesina, founded in 1993 . It shaped the concept of food sovereignty .
See also
- Agrarian , large-scale farming interest group
- Agricultural policy
- Peasant uprising in Romania 1907
- Peasants Liberation
- Peasant party
- Confédération paysanne
- cooperative
- Class struggle
- Smallholder
- Farm workers
- Rural people
- Rural People's Movement (Schleswig-Holstein)
- Makhnovshchina
- Poporanism
- Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen
- Peasant Movement in Japan
literature
General
- Barrington Moore : Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. The role of landowners and farmers in creating the modern world. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1969
- Toni Pierenkemper (Hrsg.): Agriculture and industrial development. On the economic importance of peasant liberation , agrarian reform and agrarian revolution . Stuttgart 1989.
Asia
- Werner Meissner (Ed.): The red Haifeng. Peng Pai's report on the peasant movement in southern China. Minerva, Munich 1987.
- Tom Brass (Ed.): New Farmer 'Movements in India (= Cass University Paperbacks). Frank Cass, 1995, ISBN 0-7146-4134-0 (on the peasant movements since the 1980s).
- Ranajit Guha : Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1983, new edition: Duke Univ. Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8223-2348-6 (= Classics of Subaltern Studies)
- Mao Zedong : Investigation report on the peasant movement in Hunan . Foreign Language Literature Publishing House, Beijing 1966.
Europe
- Werner Baumann: Farmers in the industrial state. Agricultural policy conceptions and peasant movements in Switzerland 1918–1968. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1999.
- José Bové : The world is not a commodity. Farmers against agronomists. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2001.
- Gerhard Hauck : peasant movement. In: Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism . Vol. 2, Argument-Verlag, Hamburg 1995, Sp. 76-80.
Latin America
- Harald Fuhr: Agrarian reform and peasant movement in Peru. Campus, Frankfurt / M. [etc] 1979.
- Eric Holt-Gimenez: Campesino a Campesino. Voices from Latin America's Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture. First Food Books, 2006, ISBN 0-935028-27-7 (paperback).
- Michael Krempin: Peasant Movement in Bolivia. The development of the socio-economic situation as well as the political attitude and organizational forms of the rural population in Bolivia with special consideration of the peasant movement since 1969. Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1986.
- Ute Wachendorfer: Peasant Movement in Peru. Scope and limits of action for campesino organizations under conditions of dependent capitalist development (1900–1983). esprint, Heidelberg 1984.
North America
- Patrick H. Mooney: Farmers 'and Farm Workers' Movements. Social Protest in American Agriculture. Twayne, 1994, ISBN 0-8057-3870-3 .