PHGY 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Collective Action, Class Consciousness, Research
29 Jun 2018
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Week 5 – Agrarian Socialism Friday, February 9th, 2018
Questions:
1. How is it possible for new movements to emerge in society?
Presentation 1 (1971 Edition)
-Wants to understand why what happened in Canada and not in the US
-Looks at power, class influence, social change
-Research method = one-man study
Chapter 1: Background of Agrarian Socialism
-Factors that may have prevented Socialism in North America
-Emphasis on the role of the primaries in the US vs. Canada
-Radical political movements assuming a dominant position in the world today
-US and CAN = exceptions, capitalist democracy has not been challenged by a great nation-wide
socialist movement
-Immense material wealth giving workers/farmers a higher standard of life in north America – has
prevented a threat to the capitalist system
-SA: one crop agriculture system, which can lead to a very populist/socialist mentality
Chapter 2 = social and economic setting
-Farmers on the frontier, and this is essentially one big co-op which influences how they do
politics
-Each farmer has numerous co-op memberships
Chapter 3 = Surface of Agrarian Class Consciousness
-Role of the CPR and its monopoly in grain elevators
-Territorial Grain Growers Association sued the railway for their monopoly = evidences the
advantages of the group grass-roots association
-Group Grain Growers Association
-Frustration or anger geared toward the middle-man
-Charismatic leader = E.A. Partridge, saw the conflict of the farmers and grain-growers
-Leads to a class consciousness and one big collectivist idea for the farmers
-1919 farmers want their own party – leads to the united farmers of Canada which leads to the
United Farmers realize they need to be involved in politics to challenge the monopolies and big
business
-Role of current political parties trying to capture the attention of the farmer
Chapter 4 = Agrarianism goes Socialist
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Document Summary
Wants to understand why what happened in canada and not in the us. Factors that may have prevented socialism in north america. Emphasis on the role of the primaries in the us vs. canada. Radical political movements assuming a dominant position in the world today. Us and can = exceptions, capitalist democracy has not been challenged by a great nation-wide socialist movement. Immense material wealth giving workers/farmers a higher standard of life in north america has prevented a threat to the capitalist system. Sa: one crop agriculture system, which can lead to a very populist/socialist mentality. Farmers on the frontier, and this is essentially one big co-op which influences how they do politics. Chapter 3 = surface of agrarian class consciousness. Role of the cpr and its monopoly in grain elevators. Territorial grain growers association sued the railway for their monopoly = evidences the advantages of the group grass-roots association. Partridge, saw the conflict of the farmers and grain-growers.
