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We Should Aspire to be Peasants

August 11, 2022

We Should Aspire to be Peasants Painting by Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern – Public Domain Rising food prices — as the USDA has forecast for 2022 — may seem like a good thing for farmers. After all, who wouldn’t like to see some more cash? Farmers, like everyone else, have been through a lot lately. Years of stagnant […]

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The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts – 8. Of reconstituted peasantries and alternate modernities

November 8, 2017

The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts – 8. Of reconstituted peasantries and alternate modernities Continuing with my ‘History of the world’. As ever, the fully referenced version of this essay is available here. I’m going to come back to the issue of peasantries as the ‘universal […]

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The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 7. Capitalism, the state and historical progress

October 31, 2017

The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 7. Capitalism, the state and historical progress Continuing with my history of the world… Earlier, I characterised the emergence of capitalism in relation to the transformation of the four medieval figures of the lord, the peasant, the merchant, and the […]

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The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 3. From the ancient to the medieval

September 21, 2017

The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts. 3. From the ancient to the medieval Continuing my ‘history of the world’ series (a fully referenced version of which is available here), I finished last time by saying we should take a peek at what came after the ‘Axial […]

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Charting America’s Descent Into Peasantry

March 31, 2016

Charting America’s Descent Into Peasantry Earlier today, I published a post titled Americans Have Been Turned Into Peasants – It’s Time to Fight Back. In the hours since, I came across an article in the Washington Post which offers some additional details and graphics on the subject. Here are a few excerpts from the piece titled, 2015 Was a Terrible Year for […]

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The persistence of the peasantry: further notes on the inverse productivity relationship

October 9, 2015

The persistence of the peasantry: further notes on the inverse productivity relationship Look, I’m really, really sorry. I said I wasn’t going to write another blog post about ecomodernism but – no, no, please don’t go! This post strikes to the heart of what Small Farm Future is all about, and raises some interesting agricultural […]

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