> ... this peasant tradition..[is] often heretical and subversive. “Don’t run away from anything,” says the Russian peasant proverb, “but don’t do anything.”.... the peasantry everywhere can be defined as a class of survivors. For a century and a half now the tenacious ability of peasants to survive has confounded administrators and theorists...

1979!!! #JohnBerger in the Introduction to #PigEarth and the other two books in the #PeasantTrilogy #Peasants #Survivors #PeasantTradition

> ... this peasant tradition..[is] often heretical and subversive. “Don’t run away from anything,” says the Russian peasant proverb, “but don’t do anything.”.... the peasantry everywhere can be defined as a class of survivors. For a century and a half now the tenacious ability of peasants to survive has confounded administrators and theorists...

1979!!! #JohnBerger in the Introduction to #PigEarth and the other two books in the #PeasantTrilogy #Peasants #Survivors #PeasantTradition

I just got some pages about Choe Je-u and Donghak, and the #Donghak #PeasantRevolution. Tonight I'll try a deeper reading of the pages, but a video title "Humans Treated Like Heaven Again" and a few other eye-catching phrases are what reminded me of the #JohnBerger quotes above. The Introduction in his #PeasantTrilogy, starting with #PigEarth, come to mind a lot. Practical advice in there too: when the armed guys rush towards you don't run but don't do anything.
#ChoeJeU in #Korea

> The peasant imagines an unhandicapped life, a life in which he is not first forced to produce a surplus before feeding himself and his family, as a primal state of being which existed before the advent of #injustice. Food is man’s first need. Peasants work on the land to produce food to feed themselves. Yet they are forced to feed others first, often at the price of going hungry themselves.. they who can feed themselves are instead being forced to feed others..
#JohnBerger #PigEarth #Peasants

> Do you know what those machines are for?
> They plough, they turn hay, they spread dung, they milk—it depends, answered Nicole.
> There’s one job they all do.
> He looked into her eyes with the utmost seriousness. For all their experience, Nicole’s eyes were innocent.. but they had never seen men poring over a map and drawing up a plan.
> Their job is to wipe us out.
#JohnBerger in #PigEarth #tractor #PeasantOnMachines #荘子 #天地編 #ChuangTzu #farmer #gardener
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