The Same Old Story: Peasant Economy and Nationalist Revisions of Marxism, 1914 and 2014

[...]both periods correspond to eras in which rural population feature as victims of war and its dislocations, either dying in large numbers as a result of conflict itself, or being compelled to migrate. At the very conjuncture when poor peasants and agricultural labourers of different ethnicities a...

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Published in:	Social scientist (New Delhi) 2014-09, Vol.42 (9/10), p.3-32
Main Author:	Brass, Tom
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Bourgeois Capitalism Conservatism Economic activity Economic development French Revolution Ideology Marxian economics Marxism Middle class National identity Nationalism Peasant class Peasant economy Peasants Political discourse Politics Postmodernism Revisions Rural areas Socialism
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Summary:	[...]both periods correspond to eras in which rural population feature as victims of war and its dislocations, either dying in large numbers as a result of conflict itself, or being compelled to migrate. At the very conjuncture when poor peasants and agricultural labourers of different ethnicities and nationalities are becoming increasingly similar in terms of the class relation linking them to global capital, exponents of postmodernism and the subaltern studies approach enjoin us to shift our analytical gaze from the economic sameness of class to the cultural irreducibility of'otherness' based on gender/ethnic/ national identity.
ISSN:	0970-0293