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Agrarian socialism

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Agrarian socialism is an economic and political movement which seeks to combine an agrarian way of life with socialist economic policies. As opposed to standard socialist/communist doctrine, agrarian socialism is primarily a rural and local movement instead of an industrial and international one.

Sources

  • Bissett, Jim. Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920. University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
  • Dejene, Alemneh. Peasants, Agrarian Socialism, and Rural Development in Ethiopia. Westview Press, 1987.
  • Lipset, Seymour. Agrarian Socialism: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan : A Study in Political Sociology. University of California Press, 1971.

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