In colonial countries only the peasantry is revolutionary, because it has nothing to lose and everything to gain

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• Being a rich or efficient agrarian economy is not what produces an industrial revolution, or one would have happened much earlier and somewhere other than Europe. BDBret Devereaux26 Aug 2022
• A pre-modern countryside produces an enormous amount of food and almost no extractable surplus, which is the hard limit on everything the state above it can do. BDBret Devereaux24 Jul 2020
• What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives but their procedures PFPaulo Freirec. 1968
• Farmers were the overwhelming majority of every pre-modern agrarian society — 80 to 90 per cent of it — and that single fact shapes everything else about how those societies worked. BDBret Devereaux24 Jul 2020
• A society as wealthy as ours has no reason not to guarantee basic security to all without endangering freedom FHFriedrich Hayekc. 1944

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