What secrets did a 9th-century peasant’s daily life hold?

Bodo was a early 9th-century Frankish farmer. He and his family hailed from a manor owned by the monastery of St.-Germain-des-Prés near Paris and worked as its tenants. He ploughed the farmlands while...

World History Encyclopedia

→ The planet, and human social life, depend on #peasant #farmers
https://aeon.co/essays/the-planet-and-human-social-life-depend-on-peasant-farmers

“Peasants, who directly manage about 10% of the land on Earth […] supply a countervailing principle to corporate extractionism and short-termism. They also preserve critical local #knowledge of land and #weather systems, and the interactions of #plants and #animals. The #peasantry is one of #humanity’s most crucial #economic, #social and #ecological resources […]”

#life #land #human #Earth #planet

The planet, and human social life, depend on peasant farmers | Aeon Essays

Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised

Aeon
"Neopeasantry in the capitalist settler colony today is a hazardous practice that could potentially worsen the problems of housing affordability and settler colonialism if it is not approached through a radical consciousness that is critical of settler-capitalism, racism, cisheteropatriarchy, and capitalist social relations."
#radicaneopeasantry
#neopeasantry
#peasantry
#foodsovereignty
#homesteading #hobbyfarms #farming
https://christykellybisson.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/towards-a-radical-neo-peasantry/
Towards a Radical Neo-Peasantry

The past decade (2010s and 2020s) has seen a set of different-but-connected crises that have made life really hard for workers in places like so-called Canada to live well. The economic and environ…

Christy Kelly-Bisson
> ..the conflict in a #ModernizingState between the claims of #IndustrialDevelopment and those of #agriculture. For more than a decade the #MeijiGovernment had assigned priority to the former, and to the country’s rulers and intelligentsia, intent on the systematic creation of a modern #IndustrialBase, it was self-evident that when the two came into conflict, industrial needs were too urgent to be frustrated by local outbreaks of distress among the #peasantry.
#KennethStrong #OxAgainstTheStorm
Rishi Sunak has electricity grid upgraded to heat his private pool

PM will pick up cost of upgrade work in North Yorkshire, and no suggestion he received preferential treatment

The Guardian

The American Revolution is dead. It was a good 200+ year run.

I am a peasant now.

We are all owned by facebook, google, apple and amazon. The tech companies are our feudal overlords.

I am busy all day serving my lord by posting to their content farm.

I hope this post gets a lot of likes. My poor children are hungry and I have to feed my pregnant wife.

#fiefdom #fbOverlord #peasantry

@YoJawnski If this really is the #newnormal eventually masks will be socially invisible, as they are in #Asia.
At the same time I think eventually the #peasantry will become more educated and self preservation will kick in. My pre-#pandemic threshold for that was naively low, but I have to hope we're not going to endlessly plunge deeper into an immunological disaster.
By way of an introduction, one of the books I wrote 'Kill all the Gentlemen' told the story of rural class struggle in England. I am currently researching to write a book on the German Peasant War of 1525, Reformation and Revolution, for the 500th anniversary. If that matches your interests, say hello. #Socialism #peasantry #marx #engels #1525 #Germany #reformation

A post I wrote a little while back explaining the origins of my current research project: “Peasant Modernism: The Cultural Logic of Post-Capitalism”

#agroecology #peasantry #marxism #WorldLiterature

https://peasantmodernism.org/2022/02/23/origins-of-the-project/

Origins of the Project

Peasant Modernism
I’ve changed instances so am repeating my #introduction I’m an Assistant Professor of World Literatures at Durham University in the UK. I’m interested in #marxism #literature #agroecology #peasantry #philosophy #criticaltheory #spinoza #hegel #althusser #raymondwilliams #degrowth