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Here by coincidence is a new story worth mulling over in the context of the issues raised in this thread. >From Spain to China to any other number of cases, the revolution could only win over peasants by supporting the latter's demand for land - and conversely how the failure to provide such support led peasants to say a plague on both your houses. The story below describes Daesh's seizure of land or at least the profits of it in Syria for themselves. Naturally the farmers - and workers involved in ancillary sectors (e.g. distribution, processing, etc.). would resent Daesh's actions. But of course they would harbor a similar resentment against any political force seizing their land and revenue - which in fact was a huge factor in the launching of the revolution. Now of course Daesh's genocidal barbarism means that regardless of who controls the land, the peasants will never submit to Daesh for long no matter how reactionary the other side's land politics are. But regardless, the punch line is that eventually Syria's farmers and ancillary workers will demand control of, and revenue from, agriculture. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2016/10/20/green-gold-how-isis-is-making-as-much-money-from-wheat-as-from-oil?utm_campaign=3386e08a32-Syria_Deeply_Weekly_Update_10_2110_21_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Syria+Deeply&utm_term=0_d84f3fd103-3386e08a32-117448697 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
