 | Eric Robert Wolf (February 1, 1923 - March 6, 1999) on Anarchism and Revolution(published by RevoltSource) |
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Anthropologist, best Known for his Studies of Peasants, Latin America, and his Advocacy of Marxist Perspectives Within Anthropology
: An anthropologist, best known for his studies of peasants, Latin America, and his advocacy of Marxist perspectives within anthropology. As a social scientist, already fighting from a less than ideal position in the wider academy, Eric Wolf criticized what he called disciplinary imperialism within social sciences, and between social sciences on one hand, and the natural sciences on another, banishing certain topics, such as history, as not enough academic. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #28 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Anarchism and Revolution
“The peasant utopia is the free village, untrammeled by tax collectors, labor recruiters, large landowners, officials. Ruled over, but never ruling, they also lack acquaintance with the operation of the state as a complex machinery, experiencing it only as a "cold monster." Against this hostile force, they had learned, even their traditional power holders provided but a weak shield, even though they were on occasion willing to defend them if it proved to their own interest. Thus, for the peasant, the state is a negative quantity, an evil, to be replaced in short shrift by their own "homemade" social order. That order, they believe, can run without the state; hence, peasants in rebellion are natural anarchists.”
Source: "Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century," by Eric R. Wolf, Harper & Row Publishers, New York, Evanston, and London, 1969. Chapter 7: Conclusion, Pages 294-5.
"Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century," by Eric R. Wolf, Harper & Row Publishers, New York, Evanston, and London, 1969.
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