Agrarian Revolution: Social Movements and Export Agriculture in the Underdeveloped World
Agrarian Revolution: Social Movements and Export Agriculture in the Underdeveloped World By Jeffrey M. Paige
Publisher: Fr..ee Pre..ss 1978 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 0029235502 , 0029235804 | PDF | 19 MB
Publisher: Fr..ee Pre..ss 1978 | 448 Pages | ISBN: 0029235502 , 0029235804 | PDF | 19 MB
So why in the 20thC do some areas of the Third World spawn violent communist revolutions and others don't? Paige, using what now has become know as "rational choice Marxism" (which is to say the use of models that are prevalent in economics and game theory in order to illuminate class conflict, historical change etc.), developed a theory which explains why, for example, Vietnam and Angola spawned communist peasant revolutions based on their pattern of agricultural production. In short, tenant farming creates a zero-sum game in which agrarian elites are increasingly driven to brutally extract surplus value from peasants via taxation and land appropriation. Paige's work spawned a large literature within the field of peasants studies, including many, joining a very old debate, who criticized Paige for being too economistic in his analysis. In any case, it remains an important landmark in sociology and continues the traditions of political sociology associated with Barrington Moore, Theda Skocpol et al.
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