POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Agribusiness, Smallholding, Comprador
29 Mar 2017
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Social status? (who is highly regarded, who isn"t?) Economic role? (relations to the means of production) There is going to be a high correlation between those^ Rex will tend to focus on economic role b/c we"re interested in politics, your position in the economy probably tells us most about what your political interests are. May be domestic or may be foreign agro-business. Comfortably off enough to be insulated from economic fluctuations. There are cases where land reform reduced the power of large land owners and instead of empowering small-holdi(cid:374)g peasa(cid:374)ts it"s the (cid:373)iddle peasa(cid:374)ts that ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)tage. Bolshevik revolution, large landowners flee, stalin tried to break the power of the middle-peasants through the famine in ukraine. They are just hanging on, working the land themselves, just producing enough to get by. State? (nationalization, parastatals, bureaucrats may act like a business class) Don"t have the same relationship to economic production to bourgeoisie. In many industrial countries it is relatively small.
