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Agrarianism, in social and political philosophy, perspective that stresses the primacy of family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization.
Agrarianism emerged as a reaction against the rapid industrialization that many perceived as a threat to traditional farming and rural lifestyles. It emphasized the value of agricultural communities and sought to preserve their way of life amid increasing urbanization.
Understanding why and how agricultural policy has changed over time contextualizes the shift from farming communities to factory farms, environmental crises, America’s role in international grain trade, and how food travels from farm to table.
History of agrarianism. Agrarianism is social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values. [1] It stresses the superiority of a simpler rural life as opposed to the ...
1 sty 2019 · Agrarianism is an ethical perspective that privileges an agriculturally oriented political economy. At its most concise, agrarianism is “the idea that agriculture and those whose occupation involves agriculture are especially important and valuable elements of society” (Montmarquet 1989, viii).
16 gru 2022 · Organized protest by farmers goes back to the late 1600s and extends to the present. This entry aims to provide a general overview of the major movements initiated by farmers in the United States, with attention to the commonalities and differences among those movements.
Its historic contri-bution to the agrarian question was the re-articulation of the home economy free of foreign interference, in a way which would seek to maintain rural–urban political unity and inter-sectoral balance, all within a self-financed and rural-based industrial transformation.
