> ... 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