Farmers in the west are reactionaries in my experience and analysis. They’re mostly petit-bourgeois landowners who exploit migrant labor (mostly illegally and paying salaries under the legal minimum) and therefore would be hurt by advances of workers rights or anti-racism.
Beat me to it. Take it from a ruralite, there’s a difference between a farmer and a farmworker. Part of the propaganda is the two are one and the same.
Looking at the material conditions, at who may benefit and how they may do so, should always be among the first steps in any intellectual investigation.
…but… …sometimes, there isn’t a clear cut material explanation. People are things of matter yet it does not fully define how we behave. Only informs it. Gives it a floor and a ceiling. A context. Our actions can still be compelled by the intangible, by the ideological. Sometimes people act against their own interests without realizing it.
Also, the more small-to-medium regional farms fail, the more land can be snapped up on the cheap by big ag companies
I wonder what the analysis of Material conditions are that leads farmers to support a regime that will destroy their livelihood?
Farmers in the west are reactionaries in my experience and analysis. They’re mostly petit-bourgeois landowners who exploit migrant labor (mostly illegally and paying salaries under the legal minimum) and therefore would be hurt by advances of workers rights or anti-racism.
Beat me to it. Take it from a ruralite, there’s a difference between a farmer and a farmworker. Part of the propaganda is the two are one and the same.
Like calling feudal lords farmers because they have rights for farming land
Thoma Jefferson and George Washington considered themselves farmers while hordes of slaves worked their plantations
Looking at the material conditions, at who may benefit and how they may do so, should always be among the first steps in any intellectual investigation.
…but…
…sometimes, there isn’t a clear cut material explanation. People are things of matter yet it does not fully define how we behave. Only informs it. Gives it a floor and a ceiling. A context. Our actions can still be compelled by the intangible, by the ideological. Sometimes people act against their own interests without realizing it.
Also, the more small-to-medium regional farms fail, the more land can be snapped up on the cheap by big ag companies