Communist Manifesto and The Peasantry Of The 21st Century. Cover Image

Комунистички манифест и сељаштво XXI века
Communist Manifesto and The Peasantry Of The 21st Century.

Author(s): Srđan Lj. Šljukić, Marica N. Šljukić
Subject(s): Rural and urban sociology, Globalization
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: Communist Manifesto;depeasantization;globalization;industrialization of agriculture;modernization;repeasantization;peasantry

Summary/Abstract: A hundred and seventy years ago in Communist Manifesto K. Marx and F. Engels gave several prognoses regarding the future changes of the social structure. According to one of them, peasantry was sentenced to disappearing, by the laws of capitalism. Since this prediction has been written, in the large part of the world the process of de-agrarization has taken place, together with industrialization of agricultural production. However, peasantry did not disappear; on the contrary, it reappeared in some countries. The explanation of these contradictory processes we find the theory or repeasantization, given by a Dutch sociologist J. D. van der Ploeg. The same social forces that cause depeasantization, like modernization, industrialization and globalization, provoke the resistance of farmers and their struggle for autonomy. This struggle can be recognized in the come-back of the peasant mechanisms in the agricultural production.

  • Issue Year: 52/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 607-627
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English, Serbian